Comment 6 for bug 201963

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Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote : Re: [Bug 201963] [NEW] OpenID identity URL should be shown privately on a users person page

Joey Stanford wrote:

> We should enable the display of a person's OpenID identity URL on their
> person page. It should be private so only they can see it.
>
> I consider this a blocker for the OpenID beta test.

There may be too much information that needs to be imparted to put it on the
home page - a seperate screen may be warrented.

In particular, we need somewhere to explain that the OpenID identity URL may
look like random gibberish but you only need to use it on legacy OpenID 1.x
systems.

Bug #199069 ties in with this a little bit - perhaps we should promote the
mutable but readable identity URLs for OpenID 1.x systems with encouragement
to switch to 'the more secure OpenID 2.0' system of just using
https://login.launchpad.net

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