With OpenID, and I'm sure anyone more knowledgeable than I will step in and correct me if I'm spinning yarns, you only have to authenticate once (per computer). You may have to enter it again if/when your cookie expires, but it shouldn't be every time, and there's no password involved.
(My superficial understanding of OpenID is this: you want to log in to a website using OpenID from your LJ. You go to this website and put in your lj address (steuard.livejournal.com), then the website will go to LJ and say "does this user exist? is this computer really this user?". Then LJ will ask you "do you want to give this website a cookie to remember this OpenID?" and you say yes and go on your merry way.)
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Date: 2010-04-28 04:00 pm (UTC)From:(My superficial understanding of OpenID is this: you want to log in to a website using OpenID from your LJ. You go to this website and put in your lj address (steuard.livejournal.com), then the website will go to LJ and say "does this user exist? is this computer really this user?". Then LJ will ask you "do you want to give this website a cookie to remember this OpenID?" and you say yes and go on your merry way.)
http://www.dreamwidth.org/openid/ probably explains it better than I could.