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Email to reset password does not arrive due to T347692
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BamLifa
Oct 6 2023, 9:15 AM
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Hello!

We are running a developer program as part of Africa Wikimedia Dev with bootcamp students. Some student have issues connecting to Gerrit after they create their account. If they try to reset, no email is sent. I myself have that problem.

Can someone help?

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Hi @BamLifa, please provide a list of clear steps to reproduce the situation (e.g. how and where someone tries to "reset" something), plus what exactly happens at which stage (full error messages, etc).
It also might be easier to join #wikimedia-tech on Libera IRC to debug this.

Hi @Aklapper,

Thank you so much for answering me. Here're the steps :

gerrit-login.png (1×1 px, 876 KB)

Now you can click the "reset password" button. You reach here https://idm.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/password/. Enter your email and wait and wait and wait, the link never arrives.

That's the problem we have.

Thank you again for your time!

I end up on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PasswordReset instead.

Enter your email and wait and wait and wait, the link never arrives.

Are you sure that you're checking the correct email address? Your LDAP/Gerrit email address is different from your Phabricator email address.

Aklapper renamed this task from Unable to log in Gerrit and to reset password to Email to reset password does not arrive.Oct 6 2023, 2:04 PM

I end up on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PasswordReset instead.

Yes, I did skip it because it's no longer possible to reset from there (see image below).

Screenshot 2023-10-06 at 16.08.11.png (384×1 px, 69 KB)

Are you sure that you're checking the correct email address? Your LDAP/Gerrit email address is different from your Phabricator email address.

Yes. The issue is that, it's not only me but other people in the session.

Now you can click the "reset password" button. You reach here https://idm.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/password/. Enter your email and wait and wait and wait, the link never arrives.

That's the problem we have.

Thank you again for your time!

You have to add your LDAP account username not email on that page, i successfully reset my password using above link

It's what we are doing, but in vain.

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@BamLifa: Please attach your two files listed in your last comment; currently nobody else can see them. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Uploading_file_attachments - thanks.

I'm wondering if we're running into T347692 here.
@BamLifa, I see that your account has cn: BamLifa, uid: bam92. Could you go to https://idm.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/password/ and try to enter your uid instead of your cn?

Aklapper renamed this task from Email to reset password does not arrive to Email to reset password does not arrive due to T347692.Oct 9 2023, 12:24 PM
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Resolving per "It works." comment in T348313#9235185. T347692: IDM uses shell account name for password reset form will remain open to track the issue that caused end-user confusion here.