Converting your site to OpenID

[Scott Kveton]

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

I don't have any blocks in place on my blog.
  
> In Larry¹s case at Ma.gnolia, when the user logs in for the first time, they
> ask for the Œnickname¹ of the user via the simple registration mechanism. When
> they get that back from the users¹ 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 user¹s 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-openid¹s design (yet to be implemented) for merging existing accounts
> with OpenID identities is simply accepting a username, a password AND an
> OpenID.

This is also another excellent solution.

- Scott