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MyOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014

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Re: MyOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014

#21

Post by SCdF »

Crap.

So I have used MyOpenID for years, ever since SO forced me to use it. In every situation where openId was an option I've used it in deference to connecting a google/fb account or creating a new user/pass. I have used it for countless websites. Literally countless. As in, I have used it everywhere and I haven't written down where I've used it, because if I go to log in and I see it supports openid I know that I used myopenid.

I also don't know much about the technical aspects of openID (though it sure sounds like an upskilling is about to be forced on me).

I have my own domain, and I'm happy to run openid through that, and I'm sure 10 minutes of google's time will make that setup plain.

What's not plain is how I migrate from myopenid to my own openid provider? Everything I've signed up with is attached to my xxx.myopenid.com url correct? So do I get to keep that URL somehow and point it to an implementation elsewhere? Or does every website that uses openid have to support migrating between openid urls?

Re: MyOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014

#22

Post by tlrobinson »

SCdF wrote: post #21

Crap. So I have used MyOpenID for years, ever since SO forced me to use it. In every situation where openId was an option I've used it in deference to connecting a google/fb account or creating a new user/pass. I have used it for countless websites. Literally countless. As in, I have used it everywhere and I haven't written down where I've used it, because if I go to log in and I see it supports openid I know that I…

Unless you setup delegation to your own domain, then yeah, you're probably signed up using your xxx.myopenid.com URL. This is the main reason I used delegation.

You should at least be able to get a list of sites you've logged in at https://www.myopenid.com/sites

Re: MyOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014

#23

Post by SCdF »

tlrobinson wrote: post #22
SCdF wrote: post #21

Crap. So I have used MyOpenID for years, ever since SO forced me to use it. In every situation where openId was an option I've used it in deference to connecting a google/fb account or creating a new user/pass. I have used it for countless websites. Literally countless. As in, I have used it everywhere and I haven't written down where I've used it, because if I go to log in and I see it supports openid I know that I…

Unless you setup delegation to your own domain, then yeah, you're probably signed up using your xxx.myopenid.com URL. This is the main reason I used delegation. You should at least be able to get a list of sites you've logged in at https://www.myopenid.com/sites

Awesome, so I have about 30^, which is less than I thought, but more than I'd hoped.

I guess I have half a year to migrate them all :-/

^Though actually far more like slightly over a dozen once you get rid of all the stack exchange duplicates

Re: MyOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014

#24

Post by SCdF »

ottonomy wrote: post #6

Thankfully, the best way to use myOpenID was to delegate to it from the ID you actually wanted to use, so everybody who did this will still be able to log in using their OpenID credentials as soon as they find a replacement to actually be the endpoint.

Except noobs (such as myself) who rushed to create one when the SO beta opened didn't know this, and are now stuck with quite a few sites attached to a soon to be 404'ing service :-(

Re: MyOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014

#26

Post by icebraining »

Sidnicious wrote: post #15
jamestomasino wrote: post #13

Well, crap. Anyone else have a good endpoint I can redirect to? I don't want one of my social networks to be the king of my identity. I want to own that with my master domain.

I delegate to Symantec’s (previously Verisign’s) OpenID service: https://pip.verisignlabs.com/ …it's been pretty solid for me and supports two-factor auth. The of my OpenID endpoint looks like this:

Does it support CNAMEing? I really like that I can add a DNS record on some subdomain of my personal domain and have it just work, without even a web server.

Re: MyOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014

#30

Post by mindcrime »

Wonder if they would consider selling the service to somebody else, who might want to keep it live? Even more, I wonder how much it would cost to run a service like MyOpenID? It would be awesome if we could put together a community backed org to keep it alive...
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