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From: Ido Ran <ido.ran@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 11:25:39 +0200
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Subject: Re: OAuth example
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Hi, I hope it the right place to ask it.
I want to write an application and I don't want my users to remember yet
another username and password set.
Does OAuth is the answer for it?
Can I use it for single-sign-on using Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo or any other
provider?

Ido

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Doug <douglas.linder@gmail.com> wrote:

> Basically, no.
>
> Even if it did implement the full set of actions, you'd still only be able
> to use a couchdb login to login to other services, not vice versa...
>
> ~
> Doug.
>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Wordit Ltd <wordituk@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Martin Higham <martin@ocastalabs.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > The CouchDB OAuth implementation is a partial implementation that
> > supports
> > > the OAuth signing of requests where the client has it's client
> > credentials
> > > and knows the user's access token.
> >
> > Does that mean you can let users log in via their OpenID, Twitter or
> > Facebook account? That's what I couldn't figure out yet.
> >
> > If not, is it at all possible with CouchDB? Many commenting systems
> > use that now and it's great not to require additional signups.
> >
> > Marcus
> >
>

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