distributed-indieauth
distributed indieauth is a way of using indieauth authorization in a distributed manner across websites, including how to have your website explicitly delegate to an authorization server (such as indieauth.com) or act as its own authorization server.
Level 0: Enable web sign-in
Link your website with a rel=me link to a common OAuth provider such as Github or Twitter. Or you can put your email address or phone number on your site to use Persona or SMS-based authentication.
This will make login work with sites that implement RelMeAuth directly, and with sites that use an authorization API that supports RelMeAuth such as indieauth.com.
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Level 1: Choose a public authorization server
Choose a hosted authorization server and link it from your homepage:
<link rel="authorization_endpoint" href="https://indieauth.com/auth">
Public authorization servers
- indieauth.com:
<link rel="authorization_endpoint" href="https://indieauth.com/auth">
- indieauth-openid:
<link rel="authorization_endpoint" href="http://indieauth.id.cweiske.de/">
Level 2: Host your own authorization server
Find or create an authorization server and tell IndieAuth clients to use it when signing in. The server has to implement the IndieAuthProtocol.
Use an authorization service
Use an authorization service such as indieauth.com or indieauth-openid.
Link to it from your homepage as follows:
<link rel="authorization_endpoint" href="https://myauthserver.example.org/auth">
Create your own authorization endpoint
Level 3: Use other IndieWeb apps
In order to use IndieWeb apps such as OwnYourGram or Taproot to post to your own site, you effectively need to turn your site into an OAuth provider.
Use a token endpoint service
Such as https://tokens.indieauth.com
Create your own token endpoint
Create your micropub endpoint
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Sites that support distributed IndieAuth
- Monocle on https://monocle.p3k.io/
- OwnYourGram on http://ownyourgram.com/
- Quill on https://quill.p3k.io/
- Taproot on http://waterpigs.co.uk/
- http://ben.thatmustbe.me/
- https://kylewm.com as of 2014-10-19
- Woodwind on https://reader.kylewm.com
- indieauth.com since 2015-06-16