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12/12/2011 1:35:24 PM
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Hi, I'm looking at the various ways of logging in and trying to get my site to have the login by their twitter / facebook other social media accounts and have a couple of questions.

One of the site users told me they have requested a password reminder, they then said that their password was not the one they expected and when they mentioned what it was it was my password. so a bit confused. I have had a look at the user accounts and many of them have the Open ID URI set as my email and using my password instead of their own. Ooops, how did this happen? is it through setting "Allow Open ID Authentication?" to "yes" in security / open ID. I set this to yes so that the "RpxNow.com API Key" would work, are they related?

Whilst on "RpxNow.com API Key" I have successfully got a user to login through their twitter account, however there is not an option to login through twitter once they have registered and looking at their accoun t the pass word is blank. Do you know what I have done wrong and how to get a login through twitter to be displayed.

many thanks in advance.

 

12/12/2011 1:57:39 PM
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When people register/login using the Janrain widget (formerly called RPX) they use their password from whatever provider ie google twitter, facebook, etc, but we don't get access to that password (and we shouldn't) so we generate a random password that we attach to the user (because we don't want our internal password field to be blank) and that is what is returned by our password recovery and the user could use that to sign in using our normal login instead of their external account via Janrain. But that password won't work with the Janrain login.

I don't know how a user could end up with a blank password. Nor do I know how they would have your email for their openid.

Allow open id is not required for using Janrain (though Janrain uses open id), it is a different thing that is much less user friendly.

Some of the providers supported by Janrain have to be activated separately by you logging into the janrain site and configuring them. Facebook and Twitter I believe require you to get an api key from them that you have ot enter in your Janrain configuration.

Hope that helps,

Joe

12/12/2011 2:33:17 PM
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Thanks,

I guess that my main concern is that each of the new logins, by the normal login not janrain are getting my Open ID URI populated with my email address and password.

I will obviously have to test to find out why.

Cheers

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