RE: Global php.net login system with oAuth
| From: | Sergey Panteleev | Date: | Fri, 20 May 2022 09:43:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: Global php.net login system with oAuth | ||
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Hey Aaron,
Thank you for wanting to help!
Last year (or maybe a little earlier) I asked Nikita about the relevance of the problem,
I quote the answer:
>It looks like someone worked on this in the past, but it was never finished. At least the
>database has related leftovers (auth and tokens tables which are unused).
>I think an important question here is whether (long term) we want to have our own authentication
>implementation at all. Now that all contributors need to have a GitHub account anyway, it may make
>sense to move towards authenticating everything through GitHub instead.
Perhaps something has changed in the meantime and I will be corrected =)
—
wbr,
Sergey Panteleev