Beta testing: Launchpad is now an OpenID provider

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:39 AM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <ubuntu at bugabundo.net>
wrote:

> On Wednesday 02 April 2008 17:05:31 Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This month I'd like your help in testing Launchpad's new OpenID feature.
> >
> > OpenID is an open standard that lets you use one username and password
> > to access many different websites. You can use your Launchpad account
> > to log into websites that work with OpenID, including:
> >
> >  * Blogger - to post blog comments
> >  * Zoomr - photo sharing
> >  * LiveJournal
> >  * ma.gnolia.com - social bookmarking.
> >
> > The OpenID Directory - http://openiddirectory.com/ - has links to more
> > sites.
> >
> > As Launchpad's OpenID support is still in beta, you may come across
> > bugs. If so, please report them here, tag them with "openid" and assign
> > them to me (flacoste):
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+filebug
> >
> > You can also find a list of known bugs here:
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+bugs?field.tag=openid
> >
> > If you have any questions or feedback about this beta, please email me
> > directly. You can also take a look at our user guide, which is on this
> > page:
> >
> > https://help.launchpad.net/OpenID
> >
> > Before I go, Barry Warsaw - who ran last month's mailing list beta
> > test - asked me to thank everyone who took part. As you've probably
> > already seen, mailing lists are now available to all teams in Launchpad!
> >
> > I look forward to hearing your experiences of Launchpad's OpenID
> feature.
> >
>
> Maybe I'm too picky, but why mascared URI? I would like to have an option
> to use a well know URI to use on sites.
> Can anybody explain to me, why this reached consence?
>
> I have no problem on having a public OpenID URl. Mine is
> http://id.BUGabundo.net. What's the danger in that?
>
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> If I don't want my launchpad id to be an openid can I do that?  If I
already have an openid can i use that instead of launchpad's?
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