Converting your site to OpenID

[Dmitry Shechtman]

Since Mr. Kveton has blocked me from commenting his blog, I resort to
posting this here.

 

In Larry's case at Ma.gnolia, when the user logs in for the first time, they
ask for the 'nickname' of the user via the simple registration mechanism.
When they get that back from the users' identity provider, they check to see
if it matches an existing Ma.gnolia account. If it does, the user is
presented with a dialog to enter that Ma.gnolia user's password. This allows
the user to link an existing Ma.gnolia account to an OpenID

 

That is a brilliant solution, provided that Ma.gnolia has a handful of
users.

 

phpBB-openid's design (yet to be implemented) for merging existing accounts
with OpenID identities is simply accepting a username, a password AND an
OpenID.

 

 

Dmitry

http://www.phpbb.cc/

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