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# LiveJournal

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## 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``:

```default
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`.