Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users

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Post by callahad » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 4:58 PM UTC

Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users
identity.mozilla.com

Re: Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users

#2

Post by lifeisstillgood » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 5:29 PM UTC

Ok, that is a big deal.

Must add that to velruse.

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Post by babs474 » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 5:36 PM UTC

I've seen a few demos of this. The developer story is great.

Easy to integrate, no need to worry about screwing up storing passwords and you are not abdicating authentication to some evil or possibly evil in the future, company.

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Post by mixedbit » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

Congratulations to the team!

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Post by soapdog » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 5:47 PM UTC

I wish Hacker News used Persona.

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Post by pspeter3 » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 5:51 PM UTC

I'm really glad they finally added this. Persona is a great way to login and better for developers and users.

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Post by clarkevans » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 5:53 PM UTC

I'm looking forward to when their LDAP adapter [1] is ready for prime-time so that we can use it internally for our own email addresses. I'm curious if the GMail adapter would work if you host your company email at google?

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/vinz-clortho/

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Post by dchest » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 5:55 PM UTC

soapdog wrote: post #5

I wish Hacker News used Persona.

It used some another (failed?) provider before (which connected accounts to Gmail, Yahoo, etc.)

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Post by herge » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 5:56 PM UTC

It doesn't work with google apps, unfortunately.

Which is completely logical when I think about it since persona would not use the mx record to find the identity provider.

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Post by callahad » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 6:00 PM UTC

dchest wrote: post #8

soapdog wrote: post #5

I wish Hacker News used Persona.

It used some another (failed?) provider before (which connected accounts to Gmail, Yahoo, etc.)

HN was using Clickpass (YC Summer 07), which was acquired and shuttered by Janrain early last year. Amusingly enough, Stack Overflow still has a (broken) Clickpass button on its login page.

If I recall correctly, Clickpass was a centralized OpenID proxy, whereas Persona is trying to bootstrap a fully decentralized protocol. We don't want to even be able to track you. :)

[Edit: Corrected YC cohort. Thanks wamatt!]