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[[Special:MergeAccount]] does not recognize passwords of own accounts
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Author: spacebirdy

Description:
Dear all,

we got several reports on Meta about a new bug:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Unified_login#SUL_attempt_failures (everything below)

The problem seems to be:

  • if an user tries to get to merge his accounts he gets a "wrong password" failure and can't merge

(the first password querry does not work)
but

  • if that user creates a new account he can merge from there
  • the home wiki is then set to the newer account

This seem to happen after bug 14330 got fixed,
all passwords set before that bugfix are not recognized by Special:MergeAccount anymore.

Also the homewiki is totally mixed up.

Many thanks in advance for Your help,
Elisabeth Anderl [[:wikt:is:Notandi:Spacebirdy]]


Version: unspecified
Severity: blocker

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Reference
bz14481

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:12 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz14481.

It seems not to work only on accounts created before new password format was introduced.

Should be fixed after r36150, and I truncated globalnames and localnames. Please confirm.

spacebirdy wrote:

works for me, thanks a lot!