Just a few days ago a new web site appeared called annocpan to provide a place to easily annotate the existing documantation of any CPAN module. (See also perl.com article)

This, along with a number of other Perl related web sites including The Monastery, use.perl.org, CPAN ratings, my CPAN::Forum, RT, PAUSE and probably a few others I missed now require registration and then authentication using username/password.

Some, like PAUSE and RT share part of their authentication, CPAN ratings uses auth.perl.org but still this is a mess. (As natural for us).

Something should be done so we won't need to manage so many identities. Can soemone come up with an idea that will provide some central management of all our identities, at least those related to Perl ? I am not sure what would be all the requirements for such a system, but here are a two points I could come up:

• Have (if possible) the same username on all systems
• Keep every system independent (so if for any reason the central system won't work, or won't let users authenticate for this particular system, it can still function and have all the users information)

Or am I just trying to centralize again something that should remain distributed and anarchic?

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Update: As jhourcle mentioned this question was already discussed not long ago in Single Sign-On?
I should have seen that before posting.
So just disregard this post, unless you have something new to say.

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Update 2: What I'll probably try to do, once I have more time to work on CPAN::Forum again is that after registering I'll let users connect their CPAN::Forum identity with some other identity (e.g. their reverend name) and then they'll be able to login using their reverend username/password. In turn CPAN::Forum will authenticate agains The Monastery and if my server won't be blocked by Gods then people will not have to remember their username/password on CPAN::Forum.

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