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= OpenID =

[http://openid.net/what/ OpenID] provides a way to share the same username and password among many websites.  OpenID consists of providers (which give you the user accounts that can be reused on other sites) and relying parties (that have websites that accept OpenID accounts).  !SourceForge.net is a relying party.  Examples of [http://openid.net/get/ OpenID providers] (whose accounts can be used on !SourceForge.net) include Yahoo! and AOL.

Use of OpenID at !SourceForge.net is optional.  You do not need to have an OpenID in order to [wiki:"Register a user account" register a user account].

= OpenID delegation pages at !SourceForge.net =

Delegation allows users to use their [wiki:"What is SourceForge.net?" SourceForge.net] username (i.e., http://sourceforge.net/users/username ) page as a delegation URL for other OpenID sites. A "real" OpenID associated to a !SourceForge.net account is required to enable this feature.

Once logged into !SourceForge.net, goto your [https://sourceforge.net/account/ "Account Options"] page. In the section of links note the link [https://sourceforge.net/account/openid "Manage My OpenIDs"].

Select an OpenID to use for delegation, and your !SourceForge.net identity (delegation) for email (!username@users.sourceforge.net), may now be used at other OpenID-enabled sites.

= Access =

 * We maintain a [wiki:"OpenID feature coverage" list of details about our OpenID implementation] which are useful for advanced users and troubleshooting

= Supported Providers =

The officially supported OpenID providers that are used by SourceForge.net are listed below:

 * Yahoo
 * !WordPress (** must login to !WordPress first)
 * Verisign PIP
 * Technorati (** must login to Technorati first)
 * myVidoop
 * myOpenID
 * !LaunchPad
 * !LiveJournal (** must login to !LiveJournal first)
 * Google (** must login to Google first)
 * ClaimID
 * Blogger (** must login to Blogger first)
 * AOL

= For reference =

Using an openID on SourceForge.net, you can do anything on the site except:

 * [wiki:"Release files for download"] 
 * [wiki:"Register a project for hosting" register a project]
 * [wiki:"Project database" Db (mysql)]
 * Source Code Management facilities: [wiki:"Subversion"], [wiki:"CVS"], [wiki:"Git"], [wiki:"Mercurial"], and [wiki:"Bazaar"]
 * [wiki:"Shell service"]
 * [wiki:"Project web"]/[wiki:"Developer web"]
 * [wiki:"Mailing lists"]
 * [wiki:"User mail aliases"]
 * Project membership

= Getting help =

 * [wiki:"Support"]
 * [wiki:"Request an enhancement"]

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