OpenID as a Single Sign On option?

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Ivan Arrizabalaga picture Ivan Arrizabalaga · Aug 22, 2008 · Viewed 17.6k times · Source

I'm just looking for different opinions. Do you consider OpenID a good "Single Sign On" solution?

The way it works seems to be a little bit confusing for an average user and there could be problems related to "putting all your eggs in the same basket".

Anyway, have anyone tried to implement his own OpenId solution within the context of an Intranet where there are many different applications (Wordpress, Elgg, Media Wiki, ..)??

I consider it could be a great solution to solve the "Digital Identity" problem but I don't know if it will work with the "login once and surf the Intranet" problem.

Opinions?

Answer

Vaibhav picture Vaibhav · Aug 22, 2008

Also, SSO (as you mentioned) usually implies that I only have to login once (presumably to my workstation) and then from there on, I don't need to sign-in anywhere.

OpenID of course doesn't solve that problem. For example, if I use OpenID to sign in to StackOverflow, it doesn't mean I don't need to sign in to another website again using the same openID.

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