Now that google supports using thier profiles as OpenIDs, that can be used directly to sign into ikiwiki. Just use, for example, . Tested and it works. --[[Joey]] > 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]] ## historical discussion when I login via to this wiki (or ours) via Google's OpenID, I get this error: Error: OpenID failure: no_identity_server: The provided URL doesn't declare its OpenID identity server. Any idea how to fix this?? > Google is [doing things with openid that are not in the spec](http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2008/10/federated-login-for-google-account.html) > and it's not clear to me that they intend regular openid to work at all. > What is your google openid URL so I can take a look at the data they are > providing? --[[Joey]] http://openid-provider.appspot.com/larrylud > I've debugged this some and filed > on the Openid perl > module. It's a pretty easy fix, so I hope upstream will fix it quickly. > --[[Joey]] >> A little more information here: I'm using that same openid provider at the moment. Note that >> that provider isn't google - it is someone using the google API to authenticate. I normally have it >> set up as a redirect from my home page (which means I can change providers easily). >> In that mode it works (I used it to log in to make this edit). However, when I try the openid >> URL directly, it doesn't work. I think there is something weird with re-direction. I hope this >> isn't a more general security hole. >> -- [[Will]] ---- So, while the above bug will probably get fixed sooner or later, the best approach for those of you needing a google openid now is to use gmail. Just a note that someone has apparently figured out how to use a google openid, and not a third-party provider either, to edit this site. The openid is (what a mouthfull!), and I don't know who that is or how to use it since it points to a fairly useless xml document, rather than a web page. --[[Joey]]