Creating Something Similar to Facebook Connect

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young buck
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Creating Something Similar to Facebook Connect

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Hey everyone.

I run a site (pickmonitor.com) and am developing an API such that any of my members can create their own website that will be completely powered by my database. When users log in to one of my members' sites, they will actually just be logging in to my site, and I will be providing that site with details about the user.

Initially I was going to have the sites make a cURL call to my site at the time of log in with username and password being two of the parameters. But, then I realized that the site owners could easily alter the code and actually capture the username and password of their (my) users. So it then occurred to me that implementing something like Facebook Connect, albeit without all the bells and whistles, would be perfect.

Is something like this even reasonable for a one-man programming team? Or, is there some other way that I could do this without that security issues? Possibly iframes?

Thanks so much!
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