Hello, What was the reason for this change? What does it improve or fix?
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 3:00 PM Andrew Otto <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great! Is this just for Wikitech itself or all ldap/wikitech > authentication? > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 7:56 PM Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A change was deployed to the Wikitech config 2019-04-15T23:16 UTC > > which prevents users from logging into the wiki with a username that > > differs in case from the 'cn' value for their developer account. > > > > This change is not expected to cause problems for most users, but > > there may be some people who have historically entered a username with > > mismatched case (for example "bryandavis" instead of "BryanDavis") and > > relied on MediaWiki and the LdapAuthentication plugin figuring things > > out. This will no longer happen automatically. These users will need > > to update their password managers (or brains if they are not using a > > password manager) to supply the username with correct casing. > > > > The "wrongpassword" error message on Wikitech has been updated with a > > local override to help people discover this problem. See > > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165795> for more details. > > > > Bryan, on behalf of the Cloud Services team > > -- > > Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> > > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Technical Engagement Boise, ID USA > > irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
