Is there any interest in a lightweight login with your google account function?

It would add a button to the login page, and on return from google, see if the openidconnect sub identifier matches a known one and if so log that user in. If not, it would show the login form with an additional "Associate this Google account with your perlmonks user" checkbox checked, and if they log in with username and password, store the sub for next time.

Dunno if we'd need a way for a user to clear those.

Dunno for sure where they'd be stored, most efficient would be a new db table, but everyone's identifiers could be stored in a single settings node (it does look to me based on other usage like setting.vars should be changed from text to mediumtext anyway) and avoid a new table.

We'd need some cpan modules installed, I don't remember what the process for that is.



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In reply to login with google account by ysth

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