OpenID? (was: Re: The 20 most popular passwords)

[Scott Allen]

On Wed Jan 27,2010 08:56:55 AM Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> Use this URL https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id when their is no
> login button.

I believe I tried this and couldn't get it to work. As I understand 
it, a true OpenID URL is unique for each user, just like an e-mail 
address. For many sites, you already have a username for the site 
which is different than what is used to identify you at your OpenID 
provider. The site that you are trying to log in to uses your unique 
OpenID URL to cross reference to your account for that site. If the 
URL isn't unique, the site can't do this and thus can't figure out 
who you are.

If I'm wrong about this, can someone tell me how to make the above 
URL work with <http://freshmeat.net/session/new> ?

Anyway, to get around the problem, I decided to get an OpenID from 
<https://www.myopenid.com/>. I haven't had any problems with this one.

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