Hello,
while prepping for T205347: Enable SUL accounts on Governance wiki, I noticed that https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Calvinius has a couple of local accounts, but it has no matching global account.
According to the current configuration of CentralAuth, this user cannot login.
How did this happen and why? How can we fix this?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Username_changes/2015-05#Calvinius@commons suggests there was some renaming in 2015, and also shows they own https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CentralAuth&target=MartinGrandjean (a proper global account). Funnily enough, even though that request is marked as Done, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Calvinius still appears to exist under the old name?
The was happening a lot of renaming of this user
But, at first glance, I can't see that this could have caused Calvinius to not have a global account.
Can this be fixed by running the migrateAccount maintenance script?
I just discovered that the global account was simply deleted: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=13093308.
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-10-31T13:14:42Z] <urbanecm> Re-create global account User:Calvinius and attach existing local accounts to it (T291745)
Good find. I recreated it again then, attaching everything to it:
[urbanecm@mwmaint1002 ~]$ mwscript extensions/CentralAuth/maintenance/migrateAccount.php --wiki=frwiki --auto --homewiki frwiki --username Calvinius CentralAuth account migration for: Calvinius INFO: Setting homewiki for 'Calvinius' to frwiki INFO: Incomplete migration for 'Calvinius' 2021-10-31 13:08:23 processed 1 usernames (1.2/sec), 0 (0.0%) fully migrated, 1 (100.0%) partially migrated done. [urbanecm@mwmaint1002 ~]$ cat users.txt Calvinius [urbanecm@mwmaint1002 ~]$ mwscript extensions/CentralAuth/maintenance/attachAccount.php --wiki=enwiki --userlist users.txt CentralAuth account attach for: Calvinius ATTACHING: Calvinius@alswiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@arwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@cawiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@cswiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@elwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@enwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@enwikibooks ATTACHING: Calvinius@enwikinews ATTACHING: Calvinius@enwikiquote ATTACHING: Calvinius@enwikisource ATTACHING: Calvinius@enwikiversity ATTACHING: Calvinius@enwikivoyage ATTACHING: Calvinius@enwiktionary ATTACHING: Calvinius@eswiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@fiwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@frwikibooks ATTACHING: Calvinius@frwikinews ATTACHING: Calvinius@frwikiquote ATTACHING: Calvinius@frwikisource ATTACHING: Calvinius@frwikiversity ATTACHING: Calvinius@frwikivoyage ATTACHING: Calvinius@frwiktionary ATTACHING: Calvinius@hewiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@huwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@idwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@incubatorwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@itwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@jawiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@loginwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@mediawikiwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@nlwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@nlwikibooks ATTACHING: Calvinius@pnbwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@ptwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@rowiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@ruwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@sewikimedia ATTACHING: Calvinius@shwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@sourceswiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@specieswiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@svwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@tawiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@ukwiki ATTACHING: Calvinius@zhwiki [2021-10-31 13:13:34] processed: 1 (1.7/sec); ok: 0 (0.0%); attached: 1 (100.0%); partial: 0 (0.0%); failed: 0 (0.0%); missing: 0 (0.0%); done. [urbanecm@mwmaint1002 ~]$
Noting this is mostly a cleanup merge, since we cleared local password fields thanks to SUL. They've a mail assigned, so at least they can reset.