OpenId is an open standard that allows users to log in to many websites with a single set of third-party credentials.
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The merge feature does not kick in - Stack Overflow thinks that the users are two separate users
I have apparently recently created a user using Facebook login, and this will not merge into my main account (which uses OpenID and Google).
When using the "merge procedure", a screen just shows up ...
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What's up with Stack Exchange's stringent password requirements?
Before anyone attempts to close this question as a duplicate, please read this little blurb that shows up at the bottom of every closed duplicate question:
This question has been asked before and ...
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How to disassociate the E-Mail address used initially to create an account?
I've tried to associate my accounts/profiles with new logins, using an E-Mail address that belongs to my work place. So I've created a new Stack Exchange account using the new E-Mail address, added ...
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Cannot log in to Stack Overflow with IE10 [duplicate]
I originally tried to update the issue that is described here, which I'm also having.
Unfortunately that edit got rejected, so I guess I have to write my own question.
When I try to log in to Stack ...
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Reputation changes not being shown after account Connection
I was just searching for my profiles on stackoverflow on Google, and I have one which I use a lot, but then I found another which was Reputation 1, which was an account created logging in with ...
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Multiple different Stack Exchange profiles with one myOpenID account?
I'm trying to have different "identities" on some of the different Stack Exchange sites (e.g., one for my professional activities, and a different one for my hobbies) such that they have different ...
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OpenID and Stack Exchange password for same email address and same account
I'm intrigued to know if my account isn't quite right. The current situation I have is the duplicate line in the "My Logins" area, which says
Stack Exchange
[email protected]
[email protected]
Google
...
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Always logged in with OpenID, how do I create a password for my account?
I always logged in in StackExchange networs sites using my openID.
Now my OpenID provider it's becoming slow to answer, and I'd like to add a password to my account, so I have an alternative login ...
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How to recover my account if I forgot my e-mail address?
I forgot my Stack Overflow account and I have logged out of my Gmail account - so I have no other option to get back to my Stack Overflow account. So I created this post to ask this question.
Is ...
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This interaction flow could be improved
I just went through the following sequence:
Go to superuser.com.
Compose a post with text and tags.
Scroll down to post, and realize I'm not logged in.
Open a fresh tab on superuser.com.
Click on ...
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How does the Stack Exchange Open ID work?
Forgive me if this isn't the kind of question the meta was meant for, but how does a Stack Exchange Open ID work? Is it the same as a normal Open ID? If not, how dos it differ?
Is there a central ...
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Removing an old email address login entirely
When I first signed up for StackExchange, I used a disposable email address to create an account since I didn't think I'd be using the account more than once. However, that changed (which I guess ...
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Login using the Lynx browser
How do you login to the sites if you are using a text-browser such as Lynx? I get the error
Because JavaScript is disabled, you can only log in by entering your openID URL manually
When ...
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Unable to log in to SO account
I have been unable to log into my SO account for the last 3-4 days...(I had somehow managed to login 2 days back)
There has been very weird behavior:
There is the prompt showing that I have been ...
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Yahoo China account will shut down soon. How can I change it? [duplicate]
I am using China YahooID as my Stack Overflow OpenID. Unfortunately, China Yahoo email service will be shut down in August.
What should I do? Alternatively, could I bind current account with other ...
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Can't recover account even though I see the email address on Stack Overflow
I'm logged in to Stack Overflow. I click my user name, I click "my logins", it shows 2 accounts.
an OpenID account.
an email address.
My OpenID provider is broken. I tried what I thought would ...
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I remove a StackExchange OpenID login but it still links to my account
Due to change of email address, I removed my StackExchange OpenID login and added a new one instead with the new email address.
However, if I go to another machine, delete all cookies and cache, so ...
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How do I log out of Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange without having to clear the cookies?
I see that this question is asked over and over again.
I made a point to use Stack Exchange rather than Facebook or Gmail to login, as I recently had to do some major annoying stuff to keep Spotify ...
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Cannot use my old account
I have been using Stack Overflow with my Facebook account. However I deleted my account. By chance my current computer still had the account on. So registered into Facebook again with different e-mail ...
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Can someone explain OpenID on this site?
The reason I never used this website is that it has always been impossible to log into. That includes Stack Exchange, which I don't understand at all. I originally signed up with OpenID, but it is a ...
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Can we make chat login much smoother?
Currently, when logging into chat, it takes a rather long process to get in. The global auth doesn't always seem to work, and I have to go through a ton of steps to get in:
First, I see this:
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Stack Exchange OpenID problem with XRDS
I'm having trouble using Stack Exchange to sign in using OpenID. I think this is a problem with the XRDS document served at: https://openid.stackexchange.com/xrds
openid.claimed_id = ...
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Login with stackexchange OpenID results is assoc_handle mismatch
I'm trying to allow OpenID login using StackExchange OpenID to www.swi-prolog.org. While the (Prolog implemented) OpenID client works find with myopenid, it fails for stackexchange. What happens is ...
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1answer
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Why is Stack Exchange cross site login so flakey?
The flakiness of cross site login makes me not want to use Stack Exchange sites outside of the 3 or so I have used in the past. It's really sad that the state has been so bad for so long. I've never ...
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How to recover my account if my openid provider is closed? [duplicate]
Ok...I just found out that my openid provider (myid.net) has closed.
I can't no loger login with my real account. How do I recover my account?
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“Suspicious request” keeps happening for Google login [duplicate]
Whenever I try to use the Google login button, I get that^^. Seems like it never navigates away from the site (it happens both when I'm logged in and logged out of Google). Strangely, if I put the ...
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Password-change email has a broken link
I changed my Stack Exchange password today and received a confirmation email with a link to "your Stack Exchange account" (https://openid.stackexchange.com/user) that, if you're not logged in, returns ...
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1answer
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Unable to authenticate via OpenID with pip.verisignlabs.com
As of late I can't login with pip.verisignlabs.com as my OpenID provider. I've replaced my actual username in the error message with username.
Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:
The ...
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Changed my facebook password - would this cause openid to break? [closed]
Having some issues.... Normally I am JPH - apparently user1557370, logging in through facebook - but had to change facebook password recently - and since then SE etc. isn't working so well - it keeps ...
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1answer
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Can I have multiple OpenIds associated with my account ? [duplicate]
After the debacle of google announcing the reader shutdown, I realized that if (for who knows why) google ever shut it's doors, the means by which I log into this site is gone. If I try to "login" via ...
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Can't login using Firefox 21 Nightly / 19 stable
I am using "Login with Google" and can't access stackoverflow from my account using Firefox. I tested this using 2 versions: At first I tried logging in using Firefox 21 Nightly, then I checked it ...
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1answer
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Change google open id log in mail address for stack overflow [duplicate]
Initially i started to use stack overflow using [email protected] with account name rachel and i have 129 reputation.
Now i need to log in into same account using some other id. for eg: ...
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Why can't I use my openid with HTTPS? Why does it have to be HTTP? Is it because my HTTPS cert is from cacert?
Today I tried to add the following openid to my stackoverflow account: https://thejh.net. However, it failed with this error message:
Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:
No OpenID ...
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What's the breakdown of logins used on the Stack Exchange network?
Since people ask this occasionally, I'm posting an updated breakdown of the login providers that are typically used on the Stack Exchange network.
For related historical discussion, see this post.
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Unable to change MyOpenId Include Information from profile option [closed]
Usually when I create new SE site logins, I select "Send no information" in the "Include information from profile" dropdown shown below.
However, this time I forgot, and as the "Skip this step next ...
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60% of SO questions asked by new users seem to come from duplicate accounts
My purpose in asking this question is only to clean up the mess created by users.
For the last 2-3 days I have been answering questions on SO, and found that the questions asked by most users are ...
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What do I need to do to be able to log in with Firefox?
I'm ditching Chrome, finally worn out by its persistent memory bloat, and trying to move to Firefox (19.0). I have not imported/transferred anything from my Chrome settings.
On trying to log in ...
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1answer
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Removing Facebook login cause removal of other OpenID
Removing OpenID login from profile "My Logins" page cause the remove of other OpenID's. In my case: additional remove of Stack Exchange and Google, so, only LaunchPad is left.
Removing LaunchPad did ...
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Clicking My Logins then closing then re-opening this will cause a error
If you open My Logins and then close it, and then open it again you will get an error. This happens in Chrome and Safari on OSX 10.7. I have not tested on anything else.
A picture of the error.
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Getting logged out multiple times… issue continues
I stay logged into SO from multiple computers at my location using my Google ID.
Today, for some reason, multiple times from the same multiple computers, I'm getting repeatedly bumped out and having ...
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myOpenID is down, who do I ask to recover my account? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)
myOpenID is down so I can't log in.
This account I ...
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Login via LinkedIn?
Is there any prospect for allowing user's to log into SE using their LinkedIn account, in a similar way to which they can login with facebook ?
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“Oops! Something Bad Happened” on login to stackoverflow.com
Whenever I try to login to my Stack Overflow account using my "careers.stackoverflow.com" OpenID, it shows the following message:-
Oops! Something Bad Happened!
We apologize for any inconvenience, ...
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Stack Exchange doesn't log me out of the OpenID I signed in with [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why am I stilled logged into Gmail *AND* StackOverflow after logging out of StackOverflow?
Below is a scenario that can be seen like a small security issue:
I open a ...
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Why is the error message for failed logins to open.stackexchange.com, “Not Found”?
The error message for failed logins to http://openid.stackexchange.com/ is, in its entirety:
Not Found
This page could not be found.
This is not a very good error message.
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Can log into openid.stackexchange.com but not other SO sites at work
At work, we can log into https://openid.stackexchange.com/account/login but cannot log into any other SO site with Chrome or Firefox. All scripts and cookies, including third-party cookies, are ...
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Stack Exchange login dialog [closed]
Is there any guide how to construct login dialog like facebook dialog
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Why is merging accounts not possible in Data Explorer?
This is my profile in Data Explorer. I logged in there with Gmail account which I am using in Stack Exchange. So my user id of any Stack Exchange site is automatically populated there. I have three ...
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Is there a way to stay logged into StackOverflow when accessing from more than one device?
If I log into Stack Overflow with my work computer, then log in with another device, when I come back to my Work Computer I have been logged out of Stack Overflow.
I also have noticed (in the last ...
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Where is my beta account?
[[Edit] Forgot to mention, I am referring to StackOverflow. Stack* sites have really blown up these past few years!]
So I was a beta member very early on (obviously it would be early) but when I ...
