X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/4da6e94305c2c7f4adab057b362d9e58a7494439..2b1857135def154369e4ee33a565861272643b43:/doc/forum/google_openid_broken__63__.mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/google_openid_broken__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/google_openid_broken__63__.mdwn index 0e41d4ced..d25d8fe4c 100644 --- a/doc/forum/google_openid_broken__63__.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/google_openid_broken__63__.mdwn @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ directly to sign into ikiwiki. Just use, for example, > This seems to work fine if you use the profile directly as an OpenID. It doesn't seem to work with delegation. From that I can see, this is a deliberate decision by Google for security reasons. See the response [here](http://groups.google.com/group/google-federated-login-api/browse_thread/thread/825067789537568c/23451a68c8b8b057?show_docid=23451a68c8b8b057). -- [[Will]] +### adding the GMail OpenID as an admin is unhandy +Adding the non-human-friendly OpenID from Gmail as an admin for ikiwiki (if you haven't set up a profile with a readabe URL) is unhandy; first, you need to discover the URL, for example, by making a web edit with it (like me [here](http://source.ikiwiki.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=search;s=https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id%3Fid%3DAItOawl3JW_Ow4xMqj98Ig1vwGx_AnjUSsgwE8E;st=author)), and then copy the URL to ikiwiki.setup. --Ivan Z. + ## historical discussion when I login via to this wiki (or ours) via Google's OpenID, I get this error: @@ -58,3 +61,22 @@ points to a fairly useless xml document, rather than a web page. --[[Joey]] > I've added buttons that submit the two above URLs for logging in with a Google and Yahoo OpenID, respectively, to my locally changed OpenID login plugin. > Using the Google profile page as the OpenID is really orthogonal to the above. --[[kaol]] + +>> First, I don't accept that the openid google returns from their +>> generic signin url *has* to be so freaking ugly. For contrast, +>> look at the openid you log in as if you use the yahoo url. +>> . Nice and clean, now +>> munged by ikiwiki to "joeyhess [me.yahoo.com]". +>> +>> Displaying email addresses is not really an option, because ikiwiki +>> can't leak user email addresses like that. Displaying nicknames or +>> usernames is, see [[todo/Separate_OpenIDs_and_usernames]]. +>> +>> It would probably be good if the openid plugin could be configured with +>> a list of generic openid urls, so it can add quick login buttons using +>> those urls. +>> +>> The ugly google url will still be exposed here and there where +>> a unique user id is needed. That can be avoided by not using the generic +>> , but instead your own profile +>> like . --[[Joey]]