Opened 17 months ago

Closed 11 months ago

#19758 closed enhancement (wontfix)

Support BrowserID for logging in as admin, author etc.

Reported by: MarcoZ Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Users Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: scribu

Description

BrowserID is a convenient, secure way for users to authenticate to web sites. It would be cool if WordPress supported logging in via BrowserID, improving security and privacy for both admins and users.

More information can be found at ​http://browserid.org

Change History (4)

comment:1   dd32 — 17 months ago

Plugins which appear to implement this: ​Browser Sign In WordPress Plugin and ​BrowserID

comment:2   scribu — 17 months ago

  • Cc scribu added

comment:3   scribu — 17 months ago

I think we should leave this to plugins for now, lest it goes the way of OpenID.

comment:4   nacin — 11 months ago

  • Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
  • Resolution set to wontfix
  • Status changed from new to closed

This is definitely plugin material for the long term.

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