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Unified Login: Accounts were attached yesterday, but today they are unattached
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Author: jeroenvrp

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Yesterday I had a lot of (300+) accounts attached to my global account "Jeroen" (home wiki nl.wikipedia). Those were automatically created yesterday evening.

Today my global account was somehow deleted, so I recreated it. Afterwards all those automatically created accounts appeared unattached. Using my global password to unattach them doesn't work. There were 29 attached. They were the same that were attached yesterday afternoon, before I automatically created all those accounts yesterday evening.

I also can't log in to all those unattached Jeroen-accounts. I can "unlock" when sending my self a temporary password.

So it seemed that a lot of Jeroen-accounts have a corrupt password (not all; there a 7 accounts that are not mine at all (yet)). E-mails are set correctly (cause I can sent a temp. password). I have "unlocked" 11 of them, but there are now 341 (348-7) accounts that are not accessible with my global account password.

Please investigate?

Version: unspecified
Severity: major

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bz14309

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:08 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup.
• bzimport set Reference to bz14309.
• bzimport created this task.May 28 2008, 12:53 PM
• brion added a comment.May 28 2008, 5:36 PM

According to log...

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=globalauth&user=&page=User%3AJeroen%40global&year=&month=-1

  • 01:21, 28 May 2008 Rdsmith4 (Talk | contribs | block) deleted global account "User:Jeroen@global" ‎ (rename on en.wikipedia)
  • 20:27, 27 May 2008 Majorly (Talk | contribs | block) deleted global account "User:Jeroen@global" ‎ (attempting to rename for meta...)
• brion added a comment.May 28 2008, 5:42 PM

The passwords may have been corrupted by a (recently-fixed) bug in CentralAuth...

Originally a steward could fix this for you by manually reattaching the remaining accounts, but this seems to have been dropped from Special:CentralAuth.

Probably need to get it put back...

• bzimport added a comment.Jun 4 2008, 6:40 AM

titoxd.wikimedia wrote:

Is this the same thing as Bug 14330 ?

tstarling added a comment.Jun 5 2008, 1:29 PM

I'll copy the passwords across once r35923 is live, then you'll be able to remerge them.

• bzimport added a comment.Jun 6 2008, 12:24 AM

jeroenvrp wrote:

Unfortunately it still does not work.

Now I read in my preferences that all is right and my previous listed unattached projects are gone. That seems ok, but now I can't remerge my unattached projects anymore. I also can't still login like before (only using the password reminder like before); so the passwords still seems to be corrupt.

It is also strange that the few projects where I am not the owner of username Jeroen (e.g. commons) are also not listed anymore.

nl.wikipedia uses now r35959 (thats newer as r35923 I presume).

• brion added a comment.Jun 6 2008, 12:29 AM

The password update hasn't been done yet.

tstarling added a comment.Jun 6 2008, 6:35 AM

Should be done now.

• bzimport added a comment.Jun 6 2008, 1:36 PM

jeroenvrp wrote:

Ok that works. Thanks. Unfortunately I can't see my unattached projects anymore, but the major problem, the corrupted passwords, is solved.

• bzimport added a comment.Jun 10 2008, 2:54 PM

jeroenvrp wrote:

Ok now everything is solved. Great job! Thanks!

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