Pylons user authentication roll our own or openid or alternatives?

Question

what is the current state of user authentication? is it good to go with openid or another alternative, or we still have to write our own user/password?

Answer 1

Take a look at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2601334/pylons-authentication

But, the direct answer to your question:

You could use RPX along with openid as mentioned on Tony Landis' blog