I was curious today and decided to try out the LiveID and OpenID integration with my site.  In general, it was suprisingly easy.  I enabled them both in my Host Settings, then activated them for the portal in Site Settings.  Setting them both up to use the service was also easy.

What was really frustrating was that I could not associate my shiny new OpenID identity with the appropriate user I had created within DNN.  The reason?

Apparently you can only associate id's that are not Admins or Host accounts.  So I had to create a normal user account, and then if I wanted an admin give it the access afterwards.  For it to be a Host account I had to manually set the account in the database (set IsSuperUser=1 in the Users table for the appropriate user).

A minor inconvenience, but the error messaging could have been a lot more helpful.

For anyone who has been watching to see if I have an update, the wait is over.  I have re-designed my implementation and now plan to offer the product as a module.  No core changes will be made at all. 

I'd like to thank those who have expressed interest and for all the feedback I received.  It made me re-evaluate what I was doing and I think the result will be a better product.   I still have a bit of work to finish it, but I am hoping to have this ready within the next few weeks as time permits.

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