⚓ T132614 No way to work around account creation blocks for global accounts

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	Create special page to allow manually creating local accounts for global users	mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth	master	+317 -24

MaxSem created this task.Apr 13 2016, 6:35 PM

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JJMC89 mentioned this in T211215: Allow admins/account creators to approve automatic account creation in case of blocks.Jul 25 2019, 1:43 AM

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In T211215: Allow admins/account creators to approve automatic account creation in case of blocks, @1997kB wrote:

In past months I have encountered many cases where users have account on other wikis but system is not allowing auto creation on specific wiki due to local block.

One recent example is this. While they have requested to create another account at ACC, but it looks like there's no way, unless someone login for them and do it.

I am wondering if there should be possibility that certain user (like sysop/account creators) can allow the automatic account creation in such cases after discussing with checkusers.

JJMC89 mentioned this in T37170: Block message for account creation if central auth autocreation of an account fails on a local project because of an account creation blocked block.Jul 25 2019, 1:48 AM

OTRS Ticket#2019052410005638 is an example of the problem.

kolbert subscribed.Aug 16 2019, 2:24 AM

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OTRS Ticket#2019081310000247 is another example. I think a reasonable solution is to create a globalgrouppermission to Global IP block exempt that would allow a user to create an account even if their IP is locally blocked.

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Emufarmers mentioned this in T249444: Blocks apparently prevent account autocreation.May 28 2020, 9:50 PM

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Xaosflux mentioned this in T259721: Create a front end option for administrators to create a local account from a global account.Aug 5 2020, 4:16 PM

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T259721 has been proposed as a way to get around this problem

Just another user hit by this problem:
https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2020090410005808

Tks4Fish subscribed.Sep 8 2020, 4:19 AM

Let's do it, I hit it over and over... Simple solution: make maintenance/createLocalAccount.php (which allows sysadmins to workaround this issue) a special page, usable by stewards at very least, possibly also local sysops at their local wiki.

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Change 618734 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; owner: Majavah):
[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Create special page to allow manually creating local accounts for global users

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/618734

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taavi moved this task from Unsorted to Pending BACON deployment on the User-Majavah board.Oct 29 2020, 5:58 PM

Change 618734 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Create special page to allow manually creating local accounts for global users

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/618734

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