No, they’re not an OpenId provider. They use their own OpenID-like system called Facebook connect, which you can use to authenticate users on your site, among other features. You can check it out here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login
Now it is possible delegate OpenID to your Google account (not Google Apps). No, this is not using the demo OpenID provider using App Engine. This is your REAL Google account! First you need to enable your Google Profiles. Try to view your profile and edit it, there should be an option to set your … Read more
UPDATE: see below I’ve been thinking hard about this question too. It’s not entirely clear to me yet but here’s the route I am thinking of going. I am creating a REST API an my users only auth with Facebook connect. On the CLIENT: Use the Facebook API to login and get an OAUTH2 code. … Read more
I would propose to use the http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/ library. It has the most used urls + graphics for each site. It is what stackoverflow uses.
What is OpenID? OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. OpenID takes advantage of already existing internet technology (URI, HTTP, SSL, Diffie-Hellman) and realizes that people are already creating identities for themselves whether it be at their blog, photostream, profile page, etc. With OpenID you can easily transform one of these … Read more
OpenID is a way to specify one identity for multiple sites so you don’t need to register over and over again. OAuth is a way to allow one application access to one account without giving said application your account login information. You can use them in conjunction. More info: OAuth-OpenID: You’re Barking Up the Wrong … Read more
First I’d like to emphasize the difference between authentication and authorization: A user authenticates to your web site by supplying some credential such as a username+password. OpenID allows this to be displaced by having the user authenticate to another service, which then asserts the user’s identity to your web site on the user’s behalf. Your … Read more
Original OpenID 2.0 vs SAML They are two different protocols of authentication and they differ at the technical level. From a distance, differences start when users initiate the authentication. With OpenID, a user login is usually an HTTP address of the resource which is responsible for the authentication. On the other hand, SAML is based … Read more
I am faced with the exact same task at the moment. The design I worked out is rather simple, but it works well. The core idea is that models for a local site identity and the third-party site identities are kept isolated, but are later linked. So every user that logs into the site has … Read more
The one that has proven to work best for me, and which seems most up-to-date is the one over at launchpad. It integrated seamlessly with my application that already utilizes the django.auth module. https://launchpad.net/django-openid-auth To get a copy run: bzr branch lp:django-openid-auth Or install it via PyPI pip install django-openid-auth