Posts tagged ‘oucu’
I think I’ve got the problems with our OpenID server now resolved (as mentioned in my last post), but if you find any sites that still have problems then please let me know! One site I know can’t just use the direct identity url is LiveJournal, as it can’t discover the server url from xrds+xml. So will need to have a bit more of a play to get this working.
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.
