Manage your online identity.

Brian Ellin, one of those smart guys over at JanRain, has taken an afternoon coffee break and released a small script to protect any files you want to share online, but only to a group of people you trust. It’s a first pass, but it works. Best of all, Brian doesn’t have to do anything with passwords or accounts – just URLs. Brilliant!

So, still sitting at the coffee shop, I wrote a little program that restricts access to parts of your website via OpenID. You can download an unpolished version of it if you like. It verifies your identity and then if you are in the list of trusted people, lets you have access to my resources. It is a Ruby CGI script that you can probably use on any webserver so long as you have the OpenID libraries installed.

The OpenID libraries are available in a variety of languages.

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 25th, 2006 at 5:05 am and is filed under OpenID.