We now support OpenID

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openid-logoDue to the insistent nagging of a certain unnamed individual (other than that this guy managed to blow four of his websites out of the water – without backups! Can you imagine THAT!? <evil grin>), you can now log in on BlenderNation using an OpenID account.

Update: no, we don’t. I’ve disabled OpenID for now because it was giving too many problems, and the webserver turned out to be barfing out error messages like you wouldn’t believe :-(

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    • http://chainz.pip.verisignlabs.com/ Chainz

      Lovely!

    • Nathan Braswell

      Interesting. I’ll half to look into open id.

    • http://www.dustyghost.com dusty

      Cool! I hope this is used accross all my fave Blender sites! :)

    • http://veniogames.com Ruud

      Well it doesn’t work for me with my launchpad OpeinID. It says that there is no server at the address though I literaly copied it from my launchpad account!

    • https://launchpad.net/~ruud-v-a Ruud

      Or is it only meant for contributors?

    • http://www.calumk.com Calumk

      What would be really good would be facebook connect, now thati would use…

    • Lucas da Costa Dantas

      A OpenID huh ..
      This time or what so ever i did not find the picture upload option .

    • greenboy

      hmm, how does this work? I have an open id but each time I try it on blendernation I end up on a blank page.

    • Cub

      Wonderful, now a single password theft can screw you all over the Internet.

    • Scott

      When I tried I only get part of a page back. That page has the title: “OpenID Authentication Redirect” and only loads part of the head (two stylesheet links and a style tag for .updated-error).

      @Cub, that depends on your id provider. I use Verisign which uses a hardware token that I bought to change my password every 30 seconds. They also have options of using apps on your cell phone or browser certs. There are other providers that have challenge/response schemes that make stealing a password just the first hurdle a cracker has to overcome.

    • http://ssross.pip.verisignlabs.com/ Scott

      More curious. If I hit one of the pencils to edit my last post, the OpenID register/login works. If I use the login link in the article above, it does not work. If I try to logout with the link just above the Leave a Reply box, it fails with the message “You are attempting to log out of BlenderNation.” But I can go to ‘site admin’ at the top and log out from there.

      One aditional note: when attempting the login with the link in the article, BN does not get as far as requesting permission from my provider. So much fun

    • Cub

      Scott: I was joking, but someone can steal the token.

      Think about it. Folks may not want to see it, but this reduction to a single fallible point makes you more fragile.

    • http://overmind-studios.pip.verisignlabs.com Fuzzy

      Good news!

    • http://fab31.myvidoop.com fab31

      Can’t login with myvidoop.com using the link above.

    • http://tech.velmont.net Odin Omdal Hørthe / Velmont

      Too bad that you had to disable it.

      It’s working swell on many sites I use. It’s a good step to get better identity on the web. I hope you’ll try again after a while. :-)

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @Odin: I’m preparing a migration to a new server with PHP5 which should support the OpenID plugin. Keep your fingers crossed!