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Excuse me, i'm French, my English is bad.

It would be interesting to implement Google Auth in CMSMS, so that users can register with their Google account.

http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/

There is the same API in Facebook.

I´ve tested, and works fine.

But, what are you planning to do with it?

This authentication is only interesting when you use another google api for end users. Otherwise, dont think that you can have your customized site based on google accounts. Thats not the idea. In fact, there are 2 types of auth, authsub and clientlogin.

Authsub is the best choice for web applications, your site will not handle at all any google login info. (99% of the users wont trust their google account for a third part site)

Clientlogin let´s you handle the user and password(good for stealing google accounts, phising etc..  )

The fact is that google auth is intended to websites that uses another google services that needs a authenticated API.


If that is what you really want, google Zend GData Api. It´s really easy to implement.

Is it not possible to recover user's informations (name, age, gender, city, email adress) when it authentificates with Google authentication?

It is easier for the user to fill a big form?
That is the interest, if it's possible.

no, it´s not possible. As far as I know, at this moment, the most you can have the email and password, if the user trust your site. Probably google never will implement that feature you want, it´s a matter of user privacy.

Hope that helps

viebig wrote: no, it´s not possible. As far as I know, at this moment, the most you can have the email and password, if the user trust your site. Probably google never will implement that feature you want, it´s a matter of user privacy.

Hope that helps

Google account Password? I don't think so.
Thanks for your help 

yep, clientlogin allows you to save login data