a thought why associating several OpenIDs with an account can make sense (primarily applicable to ikiwiki admins only)

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@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ A slightly more complex next step would be to request sreg from the provider and
 > implemented as a badly-done wart on the side of their regular login
 > system.
 > 
+> > If there are user profiles on the site with non-empty information associated with them (including permissions, reputation), then it would make more sense to be able to access your user profile with alternative OpenIDs (in case one of the provider goes down), as on <http://stackoverflow.com>. In ikiwiki, there might be no such special information associated with users (or you can think of something like this?), except for the admin rights. But fortunately, several OpenIDs can be set up for admins in ikwiki. (Only if it comes to [the OpenIDs provided by Gmail][forum/google openid broken?], then it turns out to be unhandy to write the ID into the configuration file as a second admin ID.)--Ivan Z.
+> 
 > The openid plugin now attempts to get an email and a username, and stores
 > them in the session database for later use (ie, when the user edits a
 > page).