category identity

openID

March 6th, 2007 by carl

Check out openID: the open (i.e. not-vendor-locked-in — hello MS Passport) single-sign-on web identity standard. Pretty cool. I just got myself a free identity page at myopenid.com. I thought about setting up an openID server at meyerbros.org, which doesn’t look hard, but then I ran across these instructions on using openID delegation. So I let myopenid.com handle the details of running the server and I can still use carl.meyerbros.org as my openID login URI. Nice.

Next step - setting up blog.meyerbros.org as an openID consumer (so people can login to comment using their openID identity instead of having to register). Looks pretty easy.