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Any plans to make this an openid server? It would be a good way to validate groups that other applications that require validation could leverage off.



For it to work at all, each user would have to have a different URL for each group they were in.

Along with nearly every other SSO solution short of LDAP, OpenID infuriatingly only authenticates the username — it provides no means whatsoever for context about the user, much less group membership.

Brad Fitzpatrick (the creator of OpenID and founder of LiveJournal) has been working on a new protocol called WebFinger to add context to usernames, but so far they've avoided trying to codify a mechanism for group membership.


Yes! We actually have a new site in development that will include an API to allow for users to leverage Fridge groups and their applications.




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