[osflash] Open source user management / subscription?

[Marc Hughes]

>From what I understood, open ID is a specification for how to do a
cross-domain single login.

But thinking about it, maybe there's an open implementation of Open ID
that would be what I'm looking for.  I'll have to investigate that
route sometime soon.

-Marc

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Zárate <zzzarate at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>  Have you seen Open ID already?
>
>  http://openid.net/
>
>  An open and decentralized identity system, designed "not to crumble if
>  one company turns evil or goes out of business"
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Juan
>
>
>
>  On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Marc Hughes <osflash at wpidalamar.com> wrote:
>  > Blogs, CMS, bulletin boards, chat systems, social networks, most
>  >  RIA's... they all have something in common.  Users.  Users need to
>  >  sign up and log in.  Why is it that each system, even open source
>  >  systems, end up implementing their own  User management system?  I bet
>  >  there's several million login form implementations out there by now,
>  >  that's stupid.
>  >
>  >  So, does anyone know of any open source user management / subscription systems?
>  >
>  >  In general I'd want things like
>  >
>  >  - Allowing users to sign up (email verification, catpcha support,
>  >  configurable list of user details to require)
>  >  - Assign various access levels (or attributes?) to users.
>  >  - Allow users to log in / log out
>  >  - Detect multiple failed logins for a user or from a source host with
>  >  configurable temporary lockouts
>  >  - Provide a simple API to use in applications that build upon it to
>  >  get login status & access level (preferably language-agnostic)
>  >  - Mechanism for retrieval of forgotten passwords (email? security
>  >  question(s)?, combination?)
>  >  - Provide a simple html based UI to handle all of these functions
>  >  (including administrative functions like approving, disabling,
>  >  changing access, etc.).
>  >  - Provide an XML-RPC or AMF based interface to perform all of the
>  >  functions so it's easily customizable by application that builds upon
>  >  it.
>  >  - Mechanism to include paid subscriptions
>  >
>  >  There's a ton of full-featured CMS systems out there like drupal,
>  >  postnuke, etc.  But I'd really like a very basic user management
>  >  system that was designed to be built upon.  I fear starting with one
>  >  of those all-encompassing packages would result in a lot of unneeded
>  >  complexity, and a giant security risk in code that I don't even need.
>  >
>  >  Weird thing is I've needed this for a personal project for a while
>  >  now, and my day-job just asked me the exact same question yesterday. I
>  >  have to believe there's a huge demand for it.
>  >
>  >  Thanks for any info,
>  >  -Marc
>  >
>  >  p.s. much of this email copied from blog, sorry it the tone sounds weird.
>  >
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