OpenID

A Tale in the Desert supports the OpenID standard for single signon between Web sites. OpenID lets you log into many different Web sites without using a different password for each. Our goal is to allow you a single account with a single password to game, wiki and forum, and any other services we add in future to this site.

Using OpenID in A Tale in the Desert

Before you can log in you must set your webpass in game:

• Log into the game and type /webpass atitd.org password
  • (meaning you replace password with a password of your choice - but not your game or bank one!).
• Wait till you see the notification in game that your account data has been uploaded.
• Your open id is atitd.org/openid/YourName
  • (where YourName is your game user name, e.g. atitd.org/openid/Sami).

To log in to the wiki

• Go to the OpenID login page (click the "login with openid" link at the top right)
• In the OpenID URL box, enter atitd.org/openid/YourName
  • (where YourName is your game user name, e.g. atitd.org/openid/Sami)
• Click submit
  • This will take you to the atitd.org openid server, where you have to enter the password you set in the webpass command above
  • If you are already logged in via this server, it will remember you and you will skip this step
• After entering a correct password, you should then be returned to the wiki and successfully logged in

To log in to the forums

• Go to the login page (click the "Login" on the upper right side of the page)
• In the OpenID box, enter your username as in game (you can also use atitd.org/openid/YourName but the short form is easier)
• Click submit
  • This will take you to the atitd.org openid server, where you have to enter the password you set in the webpass command above
  • If you are already logged in via this server, it will remember you and you will skip this step
• After entering a correct password, you should then be returned to the forum and successfully logged in
  • On first login, it will prompt you to create a forum account to bind to this OpenID account - we'd recommend you use your game name

Once you're logged in to the forums, you may wish to set a local password (go to your user control panel->profile->account settings) and you can then use the forum login method (login page below the OpenID stuff) instead - this seems to persist logins for longer (being worked on..).

Difficulties logging in

If you have problems logging in, first ensure that you have set your webpass as above.

Second, ensure you aren't blocking cookies for atitd.org (use this cookie tester).

If neither of those solves the problem, post to this forum or contact FaceAnkh or JulianJaynes ingame.

Third party sites

Third party sites can also use the atitd.org openid server to confirm the identity of users, meaning they won't need to reregister for each site. The process is fairly straightforward and example PHP code is available (implementations in many other languages too). If you're interested in doing this, contact FaceAnkh.

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