From: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawl3JW_Ow4xMqj98Ig1vwGx_AnjUSsgwE8E Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:29:56 +0000 (-0400) Subject: remark that adding the GMail OpenID as an admin is unhandy X-Git-Tag: 3.20130504~41 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/338230af4bdd1a57b54378def3c559dae803843f?ds=inline;hp=fa5a8aae76c705913467d2e41f50692a9ac1fc26 remark that adding the GMail OpenID as an admin is unhandy --- diff --git a/doc/forum/google_openid_broken__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/google_openid_broken__63__.mdwn index 96ba2d791..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: