Questions tagged [stack-exchange-openid]
Stack Exchange's own OpenID provider, used for "log in with Stack Exchange" and potentially used for logging into other OpenID consumers.
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OpenID endpoints and URL will be removed on November 1, 2022
Back in 2018, we announced the end of support for OpenID at Stack. Although we've deprecated support for OpenID logins and endpoints, the openid.stackexchange.com URL has remained online. Starting in ...
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How can I log in into Stack Overflow NOT using a Google account? [closed]
I was very furious that by clicking on "log in", Stack Overflow gives only two options: create a Google account or get the hell out of here. I have an account here and I want to log in to it,...
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Is there any possibility to add a username and password login to my Stack Overflow account? [duplicate]
I read some other answers where they said that if you used Google to create your account, you can only use Google to log in.
But there might be instances where we might want to log in on other ...
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What is the status of the removal process of Stack Exchange OpenID? [duplicate]
Back in October 26th 2018, SE project manager wrote:
Currently, https://openid.stackexchange.com/ is still on the internet, but we are in the process of completely removing it
It's still on the ...
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How can I see which devices are actively logged into Stack Exchange account?
The user page of Stack Exchange Open ID gives login history of Stack Exchange as well as Open ID, but it registers logout history of only Open ID and not of Stack Exchange.
Is there any way to see the ...
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Why do I have to re-log in on all *.SE sites, one after another?
I usually log in on https://stackoverflow.com, after I do a full browser reset or cookie cleaning.
After this, I noticed I am not automatically logged in on https://stackexchange.com. So I usually log ...
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How do I delete my Stack Exchange OpenID account?
I wanted to change my Stack Exchange mail address and just went through the absolute madness described here - only to find out that I've now created another useless account that I cannot delete.
How ...
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Unable to login into Stack Exchange Data Explorer
It might be related to the recent SEDE outage but I'm unable to login to SEDE via Stack Exchange Open ID. When clicking the 'Log in using Stack Exchange' button, I get an error message
No OpenID ...
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Is it possible to merge an old and new data.SE login?
Today I tried to log in on https://data.stackexchange.com/ using my regular Yahoo account but was unable to. I get:
No OpenID endpoint found.
When I log in using the Stack Exchange option I get a ...
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In data.stackexchange a login action for an existing account created a new user instead
I've been using data.exchange for a few months now, and I've always used the "Log in using Google" to sign in, but today, I used "Login using Stack Exchange" for the same email.
This option created a ...
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Add a login for all my Stack Exchange accounts [duplicate]
THIS IS NOT A DUPLICATE. The other question was about merging two accounts, my problem is to add a login for all the StackExchange sites I visit.
I was logging in with OpenID, but now that it's gone, ...
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Changed my email address and it screwed up logins across the network
I changed my Stack Exchange email some months ago and it has screwed up my logins across the network. I have to login using the old email address once before I can use my new email address for each of ...
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Sign Up link from upvoting on random SE Site does not suggest existing Network Profile
I just attempted to vote on a question I found via a google search:
The Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch (SOUP)
The site looked very similar to Stack Overflow, the programming Q&A site I use ...
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"No login found" error trying to log in at Area 51
I just signed up for an Stack Exchange account. I am trying to log in on Area 51, but I get a No login found error.
Specifically,
I go to https://area51.stackexchange.com/
I click on log in which is ...
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How to login to SE sites that don't support SEOpenID without giving them my SEOpenID password?
When I'm already logged into openid.stackexchange.com (aka SEOpenID) then I am able to log into stackexchange.com (aka SE) by simply clicking the button "Login with Stack Exchange". I am not asked for ...
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OpenID login on SEDE over HTTP is broken, doesn't show error [closed]
I was trying to log into SEDE using the Stack Exchange OpenID function. However, without any erros, I kept not being logged in.
Eventually, I discovered I was using the HTTP to connect to SEDE, not ...
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Cannot associate other communities to my Stack Exchange account
I log in to Stack Exchange using a Stack Exchange account (just Stack Exchange email and password – no Google, Facebook, etc.). So far, so good.
But when I try to login or sign up to another Stack ...
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How can I delete one of my associated logins?
I recently changed email providers, as of today, because I can no longer access my old email account. I somehow managed to associate a second login to my account.
I want to delete the previous login ...
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With the deprecation of OpenID support, how do I create a email-based login with the same email address
With the approaching deprecation of OpenID, I'd like to create an email-based login so that I'm not "part of the problem" anymore. I currently use the openid.stackexchange.com OpenID provider just for ...
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Support for OpenID ended on July 25, 2018
TL;DR: Signing up or logging in via OpenID is no longer officially supported from any of our sites.
Stack Overflow was an early and strong supporter of OpenID. We built our sign-up/log-in flow around ...
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My logins page is blank
I wanted to remove my facebook login since my facebook profile doesn't exist anymore, and so I followed these instructions to remove the login.
However, when I confirmed I wanted to delete the login,...
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Stack Exchange Facebook OpenID login issue
I was trying to search for an old message in my inbox on Stack Overflow and clicked on all Items link which redirected me to https://stackexchange.com/users/login which displays the following ...
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Adding new OpenID providers doesn't work anymore
I have successfully registered my website on https://openid.stackexchange.com.
But when I go to my profile on any Stack Exchange site and try to add that as a new log in, it doesn't work.
On My ...
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Area 51 login failure with HTTPS Everywhere
I could not log in to Area 51 in Chrome 62 under Linux. After entering my credentials and authenticating to my OpenID provider (Stack Exchange), I was redirected back to https://area51.stackexchange....
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Steam OpenID preventing me logging into existing Stack Exchange account
I have a Stack Exchange account, associated with my Gmail login. For some reason, however, I can't seem to login any more, on this browser. Every time I click on "Join this community", I keep seeing a ...
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How do I change the e-mail address I log in with? [duplicate]
First, I am very aware this seems like a duplicate. I have already tried the approach described here and, as I commented, it failed.
What I have - a Stack Exchange login associated with an old e-mail ...
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Please, let me log out nice-and-easy, Stack Exchange
Every time I log out Stack Exchange by clicking: Stack Exchange->Log out->Log out (yellow button). I actually get logged out.
The problem is, next time I click Log in, I’ll be logged in with the ...
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Unable to add Stack Exchange login or change e-mail address
I'm attempting to change the e-mail address used for Stack Exchange communications. There doesn't seem to be an option for doing that, beyond creating a new StackExchange OpenID and merging the two ...
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Cannot access my Area 51 account [duplicate]
I wanted to commit to a proposal on Area 51 so I filled in my name and email address. After hitting Commit I realized that Area 51 created a new unregistered account for me (although I already have an ...
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Find my username and password for a Stack Overflow account
I know this might have been asked before. But here the scenario is somewhat different. So please read the question.
I am a little bit confused with the thing about Stack Overflow.
I created my Stack&...
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I cannot log in to Area 51 using Stack Exchange as OpenID
I cannot log in to Area 51 using Stack Exchange as OpenID. Every time I try, I get this error message.
Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:
The openid.return_to parameter (http://area51....
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500 Server Error while connecting to Stackexchange
I am facing issue while connecting to Stack Exchange using OpenID
And here's how it's reproduced -
Step 1
Step 2
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provide email and password and click login.
Error
Is it due to the fact ...
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How can I use my SE OpenID to log into other sites?
I want to post a comment at someone's blog. The author doesn't allow anonymous commenting. I am offered the opportunity to log in using OpenID. Supposedly, as a StackExchange user, I have an OpenID....
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I am unable to use OpenID to login to my Stack Exchange account, how should I get rid of this problem?
After deleting my browser cookies I am unable to login via OpenID (which is a Google account).
I am also unable to login with my Stack Exchange (SE) account:
The problem only exist while I am ...
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Possible bug or at least usability issue with login process involving OpenID
I visited ServerFault earlier and needed to login so I could post a comment; so I went to the login page, couldn't remember my login details, and didn't want to reset them as I didn't really need to ...
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What are the plans regarding OpenID / OpenID Connect?
The OpenID protocol that is used by Stack Exchange websites has been obsolete for a while.
Is it going to be upgraded to something that is not obsolete? OpenID Connect comes to mind.
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Logging out from Stack Exchange does not work [duplicate]
The "log out" functionality of Stack Exchange appears to be broken. You can reproduce this with the following steps:
Logging in:
Click "log in" on the top bar
Click "log in with Stack Exchange"
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What do I need to correctly request chat websocket auth?
I'm (attempting) to build an SE chat library in Ruby, since it's one of the few languages that doesn't yet seem to have one (Brainf**k, anyone?).
As part of that, I need to make a request to http://...
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Forgot password but browser saved login
I've saved my Stack Exchange login credentials on my phone.
However, due to how much different passwords I use for multiple sites, I've forgot them. Additionally, I'm unable to access the my logins ...
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SE login OpenID redirect blocked in Chrome Canary [duplicate]
It is not possible for me to logon to SE using Chrome Canary. I have to use Canary, because a recent bug prevents flash from loading at all in Chrome for some sites.
Canary seems to adopt security ...
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Can't I just log in with openID.SE.com using my browser's certificate mechanism instead of its password keyring?
I'm using OpenID provided by Stack Exchange to authenticate to different services across the web.
This reduces the number of necessary logins to one per session for all those sites that provide ...
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Login not showing in Stack Overflow, even though I'm already logged in in stackexchange.com
I have an issue similar to this: Login page does not redirect when already logged in, but this issue was closed two years ago.
I already log in at stackexchange.com using OpenID, but when I navigate ...
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Area 51 login issue after typing an incorrect password once [duplicate]
I also got this issue (which was previously closed as fixed), with a very long error message that had lots of red text overlapping other areas on the page.
This error message was observed after typing ...
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Unable to set up an OpenID login from WordPress
I am attempting to use WordPress as my OpenID provider. I select the WP icon and when I click on "add credential" the OpenID URL is set to http://{user}.wordpress.com/. This takes me to the WordPress ...
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redirect_uri not honored in stackexchange oauth [duplicate]
In StackExchange OAuth flow the redirect_uri is not honoring it seems. When logging in (say login with google) once the authentication is successful we are not being redirected to redirect_uri even ...
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Protect my account from deletion
I was pondering over How to protect my account from being deleted intentionally by someone having access to the pc that I am logged in?
Premise: I am always logged in on my stackoverflow account on ...
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StackExchange login via OpenID missing XRDS document or its location
When logging via OpenID to StackExchange sites, my OpenID provider says that it's not possible to verify Stack Exchange's consumer authenticity, meaning it can't verify return_to URL in OpenID request ...
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StackExchange oauth login redirection duplicates state and return 404
We are integrating StackExchange with OAuth. And authenticating user by redirecting to URL like:
https://stackexchange.com/oauth?client_id=542&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A44301%...
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Changing account email and logins on SE network [duplicate]
first, I read the threads and documentation about changing IDs. I may have miss something, for sure, but I read before posting.
I created my SE network login with my gmail address some years ago. Now,...
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Unable to use newly created Stack Exchange OpenID account
I've created a new Stack Exchange OpenID account (since it's not possible to change the e-mail address associated to an OpenID account).
When I tried to click on the link in the e-mail address ...
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