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Yahoo! OpenID

Yahoo! Supports OpenID 2.0!

OpenID makes it easy for you to deliver a simplified login experience for your users. Rather than having to create a unique user name and password for your website, users can now use an existing user name and password that they have created elsewhere. Of course, this is true only if "elsewhere" is a participating supplier of OpenIDs.

At Yahoo!, we acknowledge that simplifying the user login experience across the Internet benefits everyone. That's why we are a huge supporter of OpenID. By enabling our 248 million registered users as OpenID accounts, we hope that gives you a lot of reasons to support OpenID too.

How Do I Get Started?

  1. Most people start by reading the OpenID specifications which can be found here.

  2. There are also several public guides to help you get started on implementing OpenID on your site. Here are a several guides that we like:

Resources

  1. OpenID Open Source Libraries: take advantage of a large range of code libraries available to implement OpenID for both the OpenID Identity Server and consumer implementations.
  2. Ask questions and discuss technical details on a variety of OpenID mailing lists.
  3. Have a question about upgrading from OpenID 1.1 or similar? Read our brief FAQ.
  4. Invite your users to login to your site with a Yahoo! ID that is bound to an OpenID by using one of these Yahoo! OpenID buttons. For example:

Terms of Use

Use of the Yahoo! OpenID Buttons is governed by the Yahoo! OpenID Buttons Terms of Use.

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