Create accounts from an OpenID only
Being that you don't need to know much more than a users email address and perhaps even their name, maybe you could use openid and query the OpenID service for email and name details.
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1 Posted by Kyle Neath (Git... on 17 Feb, 2009 07:32 AM
Can't say I follow... you can login with OpenID just fine, and we do grab the email address if possible.
2 Posted by ben.schwarz on 17 Feb, 2009 12:08 PM
I'm talking about creating an account from openid rather than creating
an account then adding openid to that.
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3 Posted by rick on 18 Feb, 2009 08:26 AM
We support sreg. I'm not sure how else to 'query the openid service', but I'll add it if the ruby-openid gem supports it.
4 Posted by ben.schwarz on 18 Feb, 2009 10:46 AM
So my thoughts were that you could let a user enter their openID when
creating the account (1 field), pull some details using sreg and
create the account based on the email address return form the openID provider.
Stack overflow does this for account creation and its an awesome UX.
5 Posted by Kyle Neath (Git... on 18 Feb, 2009 11:23 AM
Still can't say I follow ben. If you log in with OpenID here it just works (no reason to even register).
If you're referring to only accepting OpenID as an authentication mechanism as Stack Overflow does, that's a definite no -- and will never happen. The vast majority of our users do not understand OpenID, let alone use it, so we'll stick to always defaulting to a email/password combination.
6 Posted by rick on 18 Feb, 2009 06:00 PM
Here's a screenshot of it working with myopenid. We do need a fallback though in case your openid provider doesn't support sreg.
rick closed this discussion on 18 Feb, 2009 06:00 PM.