Posted by robbrandt on Wed, Oct 30, 2024 - 2:06pm

Hi, I am considering updating a few Drupal 7 sites to Backdrop.  Doing my homework and determining that I can fulfill all dependencies.

OpenID seems to be a sticking point.  We have an old "private" OpenID server that we use as a single signon server for our connected sites.  Yes I know it's old and obsolete but it still works for our purposes.

But the Drupal 7 Core OpenID module is not supported in Backdrop. Does anyone have any experience with this?  Was it dropped just because it's old and obsolete, or is there a true problem to deal with?

I am a LAMP coder but I don't actually have much experience with the Drupal code, and none with Backdrop.

Thanks in advance.

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Thanks.  openid_connect is

Thanks.  openid_connect is actually a different beast than OpenID. I think the "connect" version implements an OpenID client to work on an Oauth server.  Or something like that.

We are working on OpenID

We are working on OpenID integration in one of our projects. 

I'm not very familiar with

I'm not very familiar with SSO and OpenID, but it seems to me like the best option might be to port the core OpenID module as a contrib module to Backdrop. You may want to post a request at https://github.com/backdrop-ops/contrib/issues to see if anyone is available to port it. At quick sight it doesn't look too complicated. 

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Wed, Oct 30, 2024 - 2:57pm by argiepiano

I'm not very familiar with SSO and OpenID, but it seems to me like the best option might be to port the core OpenID module as a contrib module to Backdrop. You may want to post a request at https://github.com/backdrop-ops/contrib/issues to see if anyone is available to port it. At quick sight it doesn't look too complicated. 

Wed, Oct 30, 2024 - 3:10pm by robbrandt

Thanks, done.  Anyone else with info?

Wed, Oct 30, 2024 - 5:41pm by laryn

Hi @robbrandt! 👋

Was it dropped just because it's old and obsolete, or is there a true problem to deal with?

My first assumption is that it was dropped early in the Drupal 8 development process (and most likely yes, because it's old and obsolete -- if there was a true issue it would be dealt with in Drupal 7 still at this point), and that was inherited by Backdrop which forked after that change. 

Tue, Nov 05, 2024 - 10:01am by Irina Zaks

We are working on OpenID integration in one of our projects. 

Tue, Nov 05, 2024 - 10:11am by robbrandt

That's great news! Is it based on the old Drupal OpenID module referenced above?  What's your timing?

Mon, Dec 02, 2024 - 9:35am by Irina Zaks

On D7 project we are using  openid_connect.  We need to have similar functionality for Backdrop CMS, sooner rather than later.  

Tue, Dec 03, 2024 - 4:04pm by robbrandt

Thanks.  openid_connect is actually a different beast than OpenID. I think the "connect" version implements an OpenID client to work on an Oauth server.  Or something like that.