[Zope-dev] Single Sign On

[Shane Hathaway]

Gary Poster wrote:
> We use the OpenID 2.0 identifier select URL. This is a special OpenID  
> url that
> basically means: identity using whatever ID you have on that server.
> 
> The OpenID response will contain the actual OpenID identifier of the  
> user at
> the end of the request.
> 
> So sites that we integrate in our SSO simply sends you to Launchpad for
> authentication and then uses the returned identifier to link with  
> their local
> account representation. We also use sreg (Simple Registration) to  
> transfer
> information about the account to the integrated sites, so that they can
> update their local account representation with the central data.

I see now!  Thanks, Francis and Gary.

Shane