Doesn't work in that way. You can, currently, create a separate OpenID account from any website of yours that is an OpenID provider. (Like from DW, Yahoo, IJ.) You cannot link that OpenID account up to your native LJ account, to prove that you're the same person across sites. You especially cannot link that OpenID account up to your native LJ account and use the OpenID to log in, in place of a password. And that last is what this suggestion wants.
What I really like currently about OpenID is that, once you've linked it up, you can use an OpenID to login to other sites where you have an account.
Slashdot and Facebook both have this, which is rather useful if on another machine, I login to LJ, then if I go to those sites (likely) then I don't need to remember their passwords, just get LJ to confim I'm me.
Except it doesn't quite work, as LJ's OpenID software hasn't been updated to the current standard, which given they created it is annoying.
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You can, currently, create a separate OpenID account from any website of yours that is an OpenID provider. (Like from DW, Yahoo, IJ.)
You cannot link that OpenID account up to your native LJ account, to prove that you're the same person across sites.
You especially cannot link that OpenID account up to your native LJ account and use the OpenID to log in, in place of a password. And that last is what this suggestion wants.
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Slashdot and Facebook both have this, which is rather useful if on another machine, I login to LJ, then if I go to those sites (likely) then I don't need to remember their passwords, just get LJ to confim I'm me.
Except it doesn't quite work, as LJ's OpenID software hasn't been updated to the current standard, which given they created it is annoying.
I wholeheartedly support this suggestion.
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Yeah, it's so disappointing, the place where OpenID was born never actually implementing the ability to be an OpenID client.
I don't think they ever will.
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