Hi everyone
<div><br></div><div>I am a bit confused about the usefulness of OpenID. I thought the idea was for a person to have a single identity that they could use at multiple sites. This does not seem to be the practical reality though.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I got an OpenID years after starting my LiveJournal, but I can't seem to link up my new OpenID with my old LiveJournal account, so its useless there.</div><div><br></div><div>Even though Flickr seems to support OpenID as an authenticator, I can't seem to sign in using an OpenID from somewhere else, so its useless there too.</div>
<div><br></div><div>GMail? Seems to be the same story.</div><div><br></div><div>So if all these sites will perform OpenID authentication for you, yet not accept OpenID authentication from other sites, once again the user has to have many logins and a password database and there's no benefit from OpenID at all.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So far Slashdot is the only site I have found which actually seems to be doing things properly! You can link any foreign OpenID to a Slashdot account and reap all the benefits of single sign-on.</div>
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<br></div><div>Or am I wrong about this?</div><div><br></div><div>Leslie</div><div><br></div>