LiveJournal¶

Backend class¶

For Django, add this class path to AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS. For other integrations, use the same class path in the framework-specific backend setting.

Backend name	Class path
`livejournal`	`social_core.backends.livejournal.LiveJournalOpenId`

LiveJournal provides OpenID, it doesn’t require any major settings in order to work, beside being defined on AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS`:

SOCIAL_AUTH_AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    ...
    'social_core.backends.livejournal.LiveJournalOpenId',
    ...
)

LiveJournal OpenID is provided by URLs in the form http://<username>.livejournal.com, this application retrieves the username from the data in the current request by checking a parameter named openid_lj_user which can be sent by POST or GET.