https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11354
Happy-melon <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #1 from Happy-melon <[email protected]> 2009-01-12 18:26:23 UTC --- This is invalid: attempting to reproduce, I do the following: * Find an unblocked account on en.wiki that is not a global account * Register that username on test.wiki * Go to [[test:Special:MergeAccount]] and enter my password * An error message comes up, and I cannot proceed. CentralAuth first checks that the password is correct for the wiki you're merging from (test.wiki in this case), but it then checks that the password is the same as on your home wiki (en.wiki in this case). Since they don't match, and you can't alter them so they ''do'' match (or you wouldn't be going through this rigmarole!) you can't proceed. The bug is invalid as written. What **might** be possible is A) repeatedly changing the password on the test.wiki account and attempting the merge process again. Do we throttle password changes? Alternatively, you could create an account and then develop it so that it *becomes* the home wiki. However, I doubt this is practical: certainly for accounts with extra rights you would need an account at least as well-flagged, if there's a ne'er-do-well in control of such on *any* wikimedia wiki we have a problem, never mind the faint possibility of brute-forcing a password. The simple solution, of course, is to complete the SUL merge process so that there **aren't** any accounts with missing SUL partners. New accounts are automatically registered on all CentralAuth wikis, so this is only a potential issue with the old unmerged accounts. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
