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

[Scott Allen]

On Sat Jan 30,2010 08:46:38 PM Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
> My id from myopenid.com works reliably but seems not at that 
> Freshmeat login page.  Maybe you're supposed to have a pre-existing 
> account that you've associated with an OpenID login.

Yes, with Freshmeat you need an existing account. You then log in 
using the username and password that you created for the account. In 
your Freshmeat user profile there is a field for your OpenID. This 
field is used to validate using OpenID and also to associate it with 
your user name on Freshmeat.

This is why the generic Google URL 
<https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id> doesn't work. The URL must be 
unique to you so that Freshmeat can associate it with your personal 
account.

I believe I was able to to discover what my Google/Gmail OpenID URL 
is. I set up OpenID for my Sourceforge account using the Google 
button that they provide. My OpenID URL for Google then appeared in 
my Sourceforge user profile. This URL is very long and cryptic, so I 
think I'll just stick with using my myopenid.com URL when I need one.

Thanks for the reply,
Scott

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