Single OpenID Across Sub-Domains

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Published on 2010-12-30T00:51:36Z Indexed on 2010/12/30 0:53 UTC
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I'm using OpenID much the same as here on StackOverflow to authenticate my users. What I really need to be able to do though is have that OpenID work across all sub-domains of my site.

The site behaves much the same as Kijiji in that each region has it's own subdomain

  • calgary.example.com
  • toronto.example.com
  • vancouver.example.com
  • etc

When a user logs into "calgary" and later logs into "toronto", they will be forced to "give permission" at the provider, thus resulting in a new OpenID and resulting also in a new login.

My app "can" have multiple OpenID's under one account, but that would become cumbersome to manage.

Is there a way to have the provider link up to the top level domain and subsequently work across all sub-domains?

I'm using DotNetOpenAuth.

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