Ubuntu Single Sign On Launched; Looks Very Humanity

By , Published February 16, 2010

Canonical today announced the launched of ‘Ubuntu Single Sign On’ – a service designed to create a one-stop location for logging in and accessing Ubuntu and Ubuntu-related services such as UbuntuOne, The Ubuntu Music Store and Launchpad.

The official announcement said:

The goal of this service is to provide a single, central login service for all Ubuntu-related sites, thus making it more convenient for Ubuntu users and community members to access information, communicate, and contribute.

For most users the change will be negligible and the only difference will the a login page. In fact Canonical point this out in the press release: -

How does the new service differ from the old one?

For now, not much apart from the appearance of the site. We have many plans for great new features, however, and hope to roll these out once the service is established. If you have ideas for other features you'd like to see in Ubuntu single sign on, we'd love to hear about them.

Humanity Me
Talking of the new site, check out login.ubuntu.com and note the awesome humanity-esque colour scheme!

Signed In
As per the announcement the current ‘features’ of Ubuntu Single Sign On are limited to basic ‘account control’ options. As the Ubuntu Music Store enters the scene we’ll see payment options added.

Read more @ blog.canonical.com/?p=330

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

    Albeit a bit more difficult, what about porting it to ubuntu forums and brainstorm?

    One could also use the billing info to login to the Ubuntu shop (Forget it, apparently already done)

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Mmm. I think the forums will always stay separate but you’re right about brainstorm. The amount of times i forget my login for it…

      • http://www.linuxmint.com/ Jimbo

        Brainstorm is already your Launchpad login unless I’m mistaken.

  • Mohan

    It’s pretty cool, but it forced me to change my password, so I need to remember the change I made.

  • Anonymous

    Gnarly! I’d like to see them incorporate this into the other Ubuntu online services, the forums, brainstorm, Canonical shop if it isn’t already.

    And they need to change the favicon so it has transparency :P

    • Anonymous

      ubuntuforums and canonical are two separate entities, unless canonical buys the owner of the forum dont expect them to incorporate it into the ubuntu service anytime soon.

      • f.zweig

        I just tried the login using my Launchpad ID, which has been used on ubuntuforums.org via OpenID. And I can confirm that ubuntuforums.org already has been synced and authenticated with my Ubuntu single sign in account!

    • Anonymous

      The plan is that the Ubuntu SSO becomes a convenient means for logging into Ubuntu resources such as the store, wiki etc. Forums would be cool. :-)

  • Matthew

    “Is the new service Open Source?

    No, it’s not. It is, however, built and hosted on open source technologies (python, django, apache and postgres amongst others).”

    I’d like to hear more about this. I’ve fully supported Canonical in the past, and even understand (although I disagree with) the decision to make the hosted portion of Ubuntu One closed source. But this just doesn’t make any sense to me–why close something as simple as a single-sign-on service?

    • Anonymous

      not every piece of technology is going to be open sourced. unless its going to be community developed there is no reason to open source a piece of software.

      • Anonymous

        I dont think you really understand nerdthinking. We like to know how things work :P Which is one very good reason to make it open source. And i think other people can come up with more :P

  • mau

    look`s the ubuntu icon, is the same desing whit ubuntu 10.04 new icons

  • http://jamesgecko.com/ James

    When I think about “Single Sign On”, I think about OpenID. For a brief moment when I saw the headline, I thought that Canonical was launching their own OpenID server, which would have been amazing. Alas, this is just going to be One More Sign On ™.

    • DoR

      Doesn’t this just use their existing Launchpad.net OpenID server?

      • Anonymous

        You can use your Launchpad credentials. :-)

  • Anonymous

    thx this is so good

  • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

    Looks pretty neat. It will be interesting to see where they take this.

    They need to fix the hover states for the buttons though. :P