Mozilla shutting down Persona

Posted Jan 13, 2016 6:48 UTC (Wed) by grahame (guest, #5823)
Parent article: Mozilla shutting down Persona

I got really excited about Persona - especially the idea that it would be integrated right into browsers - and built an application using it. Now I've got a few hundred users on there and I'll have to figure out how to authenticate them post November next year. It was a good effort, wish it had succeeded :-)

Mozilla shutting down Persona

Posted Jan 13, 2016 11:25 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Switch to client-side SSL certs?

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSingleSignOn

Mozilla shutting down Persona

Posted Jan 13, 2016 13:46 UTC (Wed) by krake (guest, #55996) [Link] (4 responses)

Isn't running your own Persona server an option?

Mozilla shutting down Persona

Posted Jan 13, 2016 18:11 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (3 responses)

grahame: November THIS year. :)

Apparently running it yourself is not a great option. Part of the reason Moz dropped it is that it had some feature creep and unfortunate dependencies baked deep... makes deploy/maintenance harder than it should be and not an easy fix.

Just comes down to what you want to spend your time on. Seems like it would be more productive to work on switching. However, I haven't actually tried running Persona so that's just a wild guess.

Mozilla shutting down Persona

Posted Jan 13, 2016 22:32 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (2 responses)

If those reasons were why it was dropped, it doesn't bode well for the future of a lot of their other infrastructure...

Firefox Sync suffered from that problem too, according to what I heard from brave people who attempted to run their own instance of it; that was before it underwent a total redesign which didn't come with an accompanying code drop. The official Let's Encrypt client is just as much of a flying spaghetti monster, but thankfully it has as many alternatives as there are dependencies.

Mozilla shutting down Persona

Posted Jan 14, 2016 1:06 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, I still have a v1.x ffsync server running. It wasn't that bad to set up, and it's been worry-free ever since.

That is, until the FF clients yanked the UI that lets you actually configure and utilize it, replacing it with v2.x that requires authenticating against mozilla services, running counter to the entire point of running a sync instance oneself.

...sigh.

Mozilla shutting down Persona

Posted Jan 29, 2016 15:35 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

You can run your own auth server as well for 2.x. That said, getting 2.x to actually run is much harder than 1.x was (I had at least gotten 1.x to react to Firefox clients, but 2.x just sits and spins since there's way more work involved).