Tag Archives: Security

MediaWiki OpenID patch

Looks like Dan Libby posted a [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki OpenID patch. I’ll have to give it a spin after I get done with my current project.
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New Spectaclar newsfeed

I’ve implemented a news feed for Spectaclar that’s a general purpose open source access control feed, that will probably also veer a lot into authentication, identity, and other single signon stuff. It includes updates on Spectaclar, but also incorporates outside blogs. It uses the reFeed component of reBlog. reBlog is very, very cool…it makes it [...]
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First cut at BZ/OpenID integration

It’s still pretty rough around the edges, but now there’s a patch to add OpenID authentication support to Bugzilla. It’s not ideal, as it still requires you to go through the email ping-pong process, but the good news is that once you tie an OpenID identifier to your BZ account, you can authenticate via your [...]
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Spectaclar Updates

I’ve been working on a bunch of miscellaneous stuff this week which are loosely related to the “Spectaclar” project: A lot of wiki cleanup – I think I got most of the dead links, so that there’s at least stub articles everywhere there’s a link Patch to MediaWiki – not a huge contribution, but one [...]
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Spectaclar: Authorization first

More on Spectaclar. Haven’t done much today on the site, as I’ve been working on Mediawiki and riding my bike and enjoying being a slacker. There’s a blurb that I just added to the site that’s probably worth blogging. The primary focus for this site, at the time of this writing, is authorization, as opposed [...]
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Spectaclar

Well, I’m ready to start talking about “Spectaclar“, which is my new website (and hopefully community) around open source access control. I’ve written a rather long explanation of what Spectaclar is about. To summarize, I’m trying to find a few really good open source web applications, understand their access control mechanisms, and begin to try [...]
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