Using OpenID as Single-Sign-On option for rails apps?

Hi,

I investigated the possibilities for creating a single-sign-on service
for
two custom rails applications and a beast forum. The two apps use the
restful_authentication plugin, slightly modified. I read about different
SSO
approaches and found OpenID pretty nice. So I’d like to know whether
there
are others who have used OpenID for their app suite.
Basically I would like to setup the openid server, then adapt my apps to
use
this server for register, login, change password and so on.
Is that the way to go or are their more appropriate SSO solutions for
rails
applications?

Thanks in advance,
Tino

On 4/15/07, Tino B. [email protected] wrote:

applications?
This is what Highrise and Beast currently use:
http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/plugins/open_id_authentication/README

Also, you don’t have to setup your own OpenID server, there are plenty
of them out there.


Rick O.
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Thank you Rick for pointing me to the openid plugin, I didn’t recognize
that.
I thought about using a public OpenID server, but it doesn’t fit into
the
solution I would like to have. So probably I’ll use a own OpenID server
to
be kind of independent and more flexible.

Tino

I wrote some info on integrating that plugin with the
acts_as_authenticated plugin here:

http://www.bencurtis.com/archives/2007/03/rails-openid-and-acts-as-
authenticated/


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