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[Andreas Bürki <abuerki AT cacert.org>]

THX Daniel


Your stuff is added:
http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/comma/Workbench/BlogCertLogin
as well hereit will have impact here:
http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/comma/Identity/CommunicationCommunications
I'm working on it, in order to have some kind of guidelines in an Open
Source and in an Open Spirit, without being to much "naive". ;-)

Your playground, if ever needed:
http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/Technology/Laboratory/BlogCertLogin

cheerio, hugi

> FYI your blog admin monkeys
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. ;-)
>  have done a bit of work getting certificate 
> authentication going on the blog.
>
> Features:
> * Author privileges to named certificates
> * Contributor (moderated posts) for unnamed certificates
> * Existing accounts still work if you have a certificate for the email 
> address 
> matching your account
> * Existing accounts will update to Author privileges when a named 
> certificate 
> is presented.
> * Autoregistration on presenting a certificate to login or manually doing a 
> registration with a certificate.
>
> Non-Features:
> * Due to the complexity and limited time for testing dual support of 
> certificate and password logins has been dropped in favour of only 
> certificate 
> logins.
So I have to "rush" the usual way (which one is it?) to get
hugi AT cacert.org,
 as this is my CAcert.org Community Identity. - But it's
OK for me, I am a teamplayer :-)
> Password logins may be examined if there is a need.
>
> The plan is to test it a bit more hopefully next week and deploy it a week
Means, we have to inform 
cacert AT lists.cacert.org
>  
> after. We'll let you know when it is done.
>
> If anyone wants to do a code review let us know.
>
> New registrations have been temporarily disabled due to blog spam that I'm 
> feeling obliged to moderate.
>   
Nice to see some guys have such feelings. Well-meant. ;-)
> Thanks,
>
>   
cheerio, hugi

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