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OpenID is an open standard that describes how users can be authenticated in a decentralized manner. It allows the user to use an existing account to sign in to multiple websites, without needing to create new passwords.

OpenID is an open standard that describes how users can be authenticated in a decentralized manner, eliminating the need for services to provide their own ad hoc systems and allowing users to consolidate their digital identities. Users may create accounts with their preferred OpenID identity providers, and then use those accounts as the basis for signing on to any website which accepts OpenID authentication

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What's the difference between OpenID and OAuth?

I'm really trying to understand the difference between OpenID and OAuth? Maybe they're two totally separate things?
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What's the best solution for OpenID with Django?

Please note: this is an ancient question with ancient answers. Most of the linked apps are now unmaintained. These days, most people seem to use django-allauth or python-social-auth. I'll leave the original question intact below for posterity's…
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Architecture for merging multiple user accounts together

Okay, I got a website where you can register yourself and login. You can also login with your facebook, twitter or linkedin account. It is important that users only have one account registered. So somehow, I want to merge the accounts of users if…
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What is the difference between OpenID and SAML?

What is the difference between OpenID and SAML?
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Securing my REST API with OAuth while still allowing authentication via third party OAuth providers (using DotNetOpenAuth)

I have a product with a straightforward REST API so that users of the product can directly integrate with the product's features without using my web user interface. Recently I have been getting interest from various third parties about integrating…
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OpenID vs. OAuth

Possible Duplicate: What's the difference between OpenID and OAuth? What is really the difference between OpenID and oAuth? They look just the same to me. I should clarify, I'm planning to use them in drupal, if that makes any difference. So I…
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How does OpenID authentication work?

I am a little curious to know about how OpenID authentication works. Is there any difference between OpenID authentication and the authentication which sites use exclusively for themselves?
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Where can I find a list of OpenID Provider URLs?

I've implemented OpenID on my website but I'm having a hard time finding a list of OpenID Provider URLs. I thought this would be easy to find but I've scoured the web and only found a handful, mostly by accident. Is there a resource that lists…
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REST API for website which uses Facebook for authentication

We have a website where the only way to login and authenticate yourself with the site is with Facebook (this was not my choice). The first time you login with Facebook, an account gets automatically created for you. We now want to create an iPhone…
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Delegate OpenID to Google (NOT Google Apps)

Is it possible to use my personal website/blog to login to sites that use openid, and delegating to my Google account? OK, I searched this question on SO but no good answer. After spent some time I figured out how to do it. I'm going to answer this…
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Is Facebook an OpenID provider?

Is Facebook an OpenID provider? I know they are an OpenID supporter but do they allow people to authenticate with other sites via OpenID with their Facebook credentials?
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How to add custom claims to access token in IdentityServer4?

I am using IdentityServer4. I want to add other custom claims to access token but I'm unable to do this. I have modified Quickstart5 and added ASP.NET Identity Core and the custom claims via ProfileService as suggested by Coemgen below. You can…
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Changing the action of a form with JavaScript/jQuery

I'm having an issue that is driving me crazy. I'm trying to modify the openid-selector to support facebook. I'm using RPXNow as my provider so it requires the form to be submitted to a different url than the standard. For example. RpxNow requires…
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How to create and add users to a group in Jenkins for authentication?

I choose to use "Jenkins's own user database" security realm for user login as I couldn't use LDAP in my company. And Google's OpenID has issue when you decided to change the hostname or port number to something else. And I use "Project-based…
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How do I implement ‘sign in with google’ on my site?

On my site I would like to allow users to sign in with a google account. I plan to use openid but I would like to allow signing in with google because it has more benefits. I've noticed in the past a few sites that have the ability to sign in with a…
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