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@@ -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.
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 ## historical discussion
 
 when I login via to this wiki (or ours) via Google's OpenID, I get this error: