Comments on: More Google Apps as OpenID for WordPress

By: matthew

matthew — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:31:27 +0000

@Alexandre – wow! I would not have thought of extending this solution so far, but that looks like it would have worked. How did you go?

As I mentioned to @Zoltan for the simple purpose of integrating GAFYD and WordPress this is really too much work for too little payoff, but in your case getting Moodle as well and perhaps even TikiWiki then the payoff is there for sure!

You are quite right on the process – I’d love to hear how you went with it.

By: matthew

matthew — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:41:15 +0000

@Zoltan You are so right – I am guilty of over-engineering this solution because when I get an idea and a sniff of blood I can be quite blind to any other options as I track it down.

So you have a great simple solution – just let them log in with the GAFYD account & create their own account on the blog.

I guess my main aim was to have only a single password for the user to remember, but the complexity cost in setting it up may be too high for simple situations.

By: Alexandre

Alexandre — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 02:11:09 +0000

Intriguing. I’ll have to try it.
This is for some courses I’m teaching. I’d like to provide SSO between BuddyPress and Moodle (at a minimum) along with Google Apps and TikiWiki (if possible). This all sounds like a neat workaround since it doesn’t require setting up my own authentication method. (Moodle has some integration with Google Apps and TikiWiki accepts OpenID, so we might be ok.)
However, it does require a few minutes per user, AFAICT. Not too much of a problem with a limited number of students, but it’s probably not scaleable.
So, to reiterate… For each user, I need to:
* Create a GAYD account (seems like the Moodle integration does this).
* Keep the login info somewhere.
* Create a new WP account.
* Log into WP as that user.
* Add OpenID.
* Log into that user’s GAYD account.
* Log into WP using OpenID.

A bit convoluted, but if it works, it’s nice. In fact, I might let students use their authentication method, offering them some help along the way. Although, typically, that ends up eating into much of my time since I get lots of support question, distracting us from the course material.

At any rate, thanks a lot for this post!

By: Zoltan

Zoltan — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:00:57 +0000

Thanks for the “manual” – however, isn’t is much more simple if you have your Google Apps hosted domain users log in simply with their account? This way they actually create their own profile without any admin interaction or preparation, so it’s not only easier but safer, and the user has more control.