diff --git a/serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Audiobookshelf.md b/serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Audiobookshelf.md
index bb53df6..0824b15 100644
--- a/serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Audiobookshelf.md
+++ b/serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Audiobookshelf.md
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ the local form, and the phone app offers SSO on its server-address screen. The l
 | Client secret | `ABS_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET` in `~/.config/secrets/audiobookshelf` on Dankserver (mode 600; never in the repo, a URL or an argv) |
 | The ABS half: issuer, the four IdP URLs, claim, auto-register | `scripts/audiobookshelf-init.sh`, armed automatically when that secret exists in the credential file |
 | Role at first SSO sign-in | the `abs_groups` claim: `audiobookshelf_admins` → `admin`, `audiobookshelf_users` → `user`, in neither → denied (fail closed) |
-| Admin group members | `akadmin` (operator stand-in) and `qa-e2e-admin` — the second is the identity the deploy gate signs in as, so the script re-adds it on every run; drop it and the gate fails, not a phone |
+| Admin group members | `akadmin` (the operator's own authentik admin account — sign in as it and the claim grants site admin) and `qa-e2e-admin` (the identity the deploy gate signs in as, so the script re-adds it every run; drop it and the gate fails, not a phone) |
 
 The IdP saying yes is not the same as being allowed in: with `authOpenIDAutoRegister` on,
 a first sign-in creates the account, and the claim alone decides the type. A user in
@@ -146,6 +146,16 @@ Both halves — authentik's provider row and ABS's settings — are asserted end
   provided by the access token)` — a fault that reads like an ABS bug and is an IdP row. Attach
   the built-in OpenID `openid`/`profile`/`email` mappings beside the claim mapping, which is
   what every working RP on this IdP carries (measured 2026-11-02).
+- **With `authOpenIDMatchExistingBy` unset, an SSO identity never lands on an existing ABS
+  account, and a name collision is a hard denial.** In that mode `findUserFromOpenIdUserInfo`
+  matches on `sub` only, so every first sign-in auto-registers a NEW user; if the IdP username
+  equals an ABS username — the local root `frank` is the one here — the create hits the unique
+  constraint and the callback dies `Unauthorized`. So "create a `frank` user in authentik" does
+  not reach the root account: either set `authOpenIDMatchExistingBy` to `username` (links the
+  IdP account to the existing one, and `setUserGroup` refuses to downgrade a root — root plus an
+  `admin` claim is allowed, root plus `user` is denied) or pick a non-colliding IdP name. Read
+  off `server/models/User.js` and `server/auth/OidcAuthStrategy.js` in the pinned digest
+  (2026-11-02).
 - **The audio bind stays `:ro`.** ABS writes nothing that belongs beside the
   audio: its library, covers, progress and sidecar metadata all land in
   `/metadata` on the SSD. A writable bind would put stray writes on the spindle