CSC/ECE 517 Spring 2015/ch1b 21 QW

Omniauth

‘‘‘Omniauth’’’ is a Ruby authentication framework aimed to integrated with various types of authentication providers. It can be hooked up to any system, from social network to enterprise systems to simple username and password authentication. <ref>https://github.com/intridea/omniauth/wiki</ref>

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Background

With web application booming, most users login hundreds of services every day and won't expect to create unique login and password for each service. So intridea recently releases a standard library to provide multi-provider authentication for web applications.

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