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Just went though this and figured it out.

1.  The openid you enter needs http:// at the beginning and a slash / at the end:  http://username.myopenid.com/
This is the case for all additional users, even though yours (the first admin) doesn't need the http:// or the /.

2.  You need to check the box in the user's contact screen to "allow to login" (Summary tab, then Edit button).

3.  You need to give the user some access by adding them to a group that has access to do things (Groups tab in profile).  In my case the new user wasn't added to any group so they got an error message even though steps 1 and 2 were complete.

Hope this helps!

Several folks were having trouble with this, so at Lobo's request I went through the code and added a call to the same URL normalizing method that the login page uses. So now when you create or edit a contact and give them an OpenID, the OpenID library will fix it up for you and save it in the correct format (for example, adding a trailing slash if you forgot it).

This new functionality will be released in 2.2 and in the next 2.1.x point release.