Run your own openid server in 2 minutes

Re:Run your own openid server in 2 minutes by seancron on Sunday June 27, 2010 @09:05PM (#1466696)

If you have your own website, and an OpenID provider (you do if you have a Google account), you can use your domain as an OpenID uri by adding two lines to the <head> section of your homepage. For example:

  <link rel="openid2.provider" href="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud?source=profiles" >
  <link rel="openid2.local_id" href="http://www.google.com/profiles/<username>" >

I find that it's much easier to remember my own domain than https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id

Source: http://smarterware.org/6286/how-to-set-up-openid-on-your-own...

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Re:Run your own openid server in 2 minutes by loup-vaillant on Monday June 28, 2010 @04:40AM (#1467430)

Cool. Except that completely misses the original point: do not centralize what you can avoid to. And do not trust a third party when you can avoid it.

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Re:Run your own openid server in 2 minutes by runevault on Monday June 28, 2010 @12:50PM (#1468502)

Yes but the upside to his method is you still have final control, as if you don't like one OID provider anymore you just change the redirect and it all keeps working exactly the same way.

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