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OpenID is an open, decentralized standard for authenticating users. It is used by sites such as Yahoo!, AOL, Verisign and others. You can set up your Kentico site to allow authentication via credentials from sites or services that support OpenID 2.0.
To set up OpenID authentication, you do not need to register your site. Only take the following steps:
When a user signs in through a third-party authentication service for the first time, Kentico automatically creates a new user account for this user. Learn more about managing users that sign in through a third-party authentication service.
The following diagram illustrates how the process of OpenID login works: