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user845729
user845729

Reputation: 47

OpenID + Google returning different unique ids for same user

I am working on a project using openid as a login. So far its been working fine. Today however I noticed a user using gmail provider could not log in with their existing account.

I looked over the code and could find no issue. In the end I made a copy of their existing unique id key and made them create a new account. When the new account was created I compared the two openid unique keys and they were different for the same account.

As far as I know this would break the whole premise of openid.

I would like to know if others have had a similar experience and so I can identify if the issue is related to openid / gmail or is something on my end.

Project Specs. - Java 6.0 - Tomcat 7.0 - MySQL 5.5 - JOpenID 2.0

Upvotes: 4

Views: 245

Answers (1)

Frankie
Frankie

Reputation: 25165

Google will create a different OpenID for each URL as better described by Andrew Arnott here.

Do notice that Google ID, Facebook ID, Flickr ID for a same user coming from any one of those different sites... will be unique!

Upvotes: 3

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