OpenID is a way to authenticate yourself to various places (websites) by verifying your identity as the owner of a particular URL (say, awebsite of your own). Instead of giving a username and password to a login form, you just give it your URL. You’re then directed to your "identity provider" to log in, and when it authenticates you, you go back to the site you were orignally trying to get into.
So what makes phpmyid somehow better than other hosted openid projects?
Manage your own identity No control from a third party. Easy to configure and to install. Secure password handling.
phpMyID is a single user IdP, or "Identity Provider" for the OpenID framework. It’s a single PHP script with minimal dependancies. No need a database, No need to change filesystem CHMOD Installing phpMyID requires an MD5 hashing utility.
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