OpenID for OUCUs

Alex January 28th, 2008

I’ve just updated our OpenID server so that you can use your OUCU (OU Computer Username) to log in to OpenID enabled sites and you don’t need to have registered with the OpenID server first.

How to use it… whenever you see an OpenID enabled site, enter the following as your OpenID identity URL:

openid.open.ac.uk/oucu/abc123 (where abc123 is your OUCU)

You’ll then use your normal OUCU and password to log in if you aren’t already logged in. It should work for both staff and student OUCUs and effectively turns any OUCU into an OpenID identity url.

If you’ve previously (manually) registered on our OpenID server, but happened to use your OUCU as your username, then these are 2 seperate accounts.

This is still an experimental service, so I’d welcome any feedback :-)

(Update 29/1/08) have discovered some problems with this server but not related to the OUCU part, just that some websites fail when verifying the OpenID ID url, I’ve posted to the openid4java dev group about this.

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2 Responses to “OpenID for OUCUs”

  1. JGaynard
    on 24 Mar 2008 at 10:44 am

    Hi, Alex

    Thanks for this initiative and information.
    The big challenge with all the social networking tools to which
    I now subscribe is password management.
    Is fOUndit OpenID enabled?
    Best regards, John

  2. a.little
    on 25 Mar 2008 at 10:37 am

    Cheers John,
    fOUndit doesn’t appear to be OpenID enabled just yet, I had a quick loook on the Pligg (the system fOUndit is based on) forums and there’s been some discussion about integrating OpenID (see: http://forums.pligg.com/core-development/4653-openid.html), but it’s not done yet.
    Alex

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