| Summary: | Don't force undesired usernames upon the user if his choice is there unused... also just require remembering email | ||
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| Product: | [Websites] www.kde.org | Reporter: | Dan Jidanni Jacobson <jidanni> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | kde-www mailing-list <kde-www> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | aacid, kde.org, mikhail.krutov, quazgar, simonandric5, softwarefreedomsolutions |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Dan Jidanni Jacobson
2013-04-17 02:22:39 UTC
P.S., with your totally garbled KDE accounts systems, there is no way I can add third comment to http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=217&t=110827 because even though I can login, I get stuck in the SILLY ----- Choose a display username Looks like you are logging into the forum with your Identity credentials for the first time. You need to choose a display username which will be visible to all forum users. This is a one time activity, we promise! You already have an account on this forum (e-mail exists in our database). Please select the 'choose from existing' option below instead. Use this auto generated username: danjidannijacobson Specify your own username (subject to availability) Choose username from an existing forum.kde.org account ---- over and over what a total mess. But that's how it is. The big sites just have the email address be the primary key. There can't be duplicate accounts ever that way. If indeed that is what is going on. Unfortunately the forum Identity login system is known to be a little buggy - unfortunately with a lack of spare time from contributors it is difficult to fix. Are you trying to login as 'jidanni' or 'danjidannijacobson' when logging into the forum? With regards to using email addresses - we do have plans to move in that direction in the long term - but this is complicated as software such as Mediawiki, phpBB, Drupal, Wordpress, etc all require a username. KDE is not large enough to be able to justify totally custom software which uses email addresses as the primary key (and many people are not happy about having their email address publicised which does not help). I see. Anyway all I want to do is add a comment to that forum post that I have now created https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318474 . Perhaps you can add that comment for me, as login in to the forum is now totally completely twisted up for me no matter what I try. I've added that to the forum topic now. For the future though (and for the sake of other users who may be running into this issue) I would like to solve your login issues. After clearing all cookies, and trying again with your Identity username, do you still get the same "select a forum username" page, or are you logged in properly? Thanks! Umm, I'm not even certain how many accounts I have, and all different on 1) bug tracker 2) Forum and 3) Identity site, and all made by me within this week. And all either jidanni or jidanni@jidanni.org or that name that was forced upon me which perhaps is DanJidanniJacobson, perhaps not. So what I think we should do is let this rest until the next time I use KDE stuff, which is about every five years! Indeed, who knows how long I will be able to reply to this bug before my precious cookie is lost and I enter the nightmare. So best to quit while ahead.... If you really want to debug this well then you can check your databases and see just how I got into this snarl.... I've already examined the Identity and Forum data stores. Both show no problems. With regards to Bugzilla - it uses email addresses for it's username anyway. You have 3 accounts technically, although one is linked to the other (so only two accounts in effect). Well OK what account name would you like me to login to the forum with. Yes I will use a fresh browser with no cookies. Please try the username "danjidannijacobson". I believe I may have identified the bug you hit - Identity usernames need to be entered all lower case otherwise this triggers a bug in the code. I've been able to reproduce it with my own account. Well guess what, due to common browser bugs, even if one does enter it in all lower case, having entered it before in mixed case causes the browser's autofiller to pick the way the user entered it before! So indeed unless the user totally wipes his browser... anyway you see the path is fraught with danger. So I will take your word for it, and wish to be excused until next time. Sure - thanks for reporting this issue. Hello! I'm stuck with same issue atm - can't figure out what was my username. Any help would be appreciated. My account email is nekoxmachina [] gmail com. Ooops. Seems I've found my username. Sorry! (however this imho is still a bug, email should be sufficient to reset user's password). Confirmed, marked bug #322866 as a duplicate. *** Bug 322866 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Marked importance as "major" since this makes the "reset password" feature unusable for some users and there's no easy workaround (create new account). +1 Would it be too radical to open a new bug suggesting the complete and total decommissioning of the KDE Identity System? It appears only to serve as a firewall keeping all but the most committed users and developers from participating in the community. How many people do you suppose gave up instead of posting a bug here? For those determined to see it stay, there should be a confirmation, at minimum, sent to the registered e-mail address including exactly what the username is. Also, the username for KDE identity should be the same as the forum username BY DEFAULT. Finally, the forum administration links should not be locked/blocked behind another login screen that cannot be accessed. > Would it be too radical to open a new bug suggesting the complete and total decommissioning of the KDE Identity System?
I'm sure our sysadmins would be very happy if you learn about all the requirements we have and can propose a working of implementation a better system.
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