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CentralAuth doesn't see a local account: user unable to merge accounts from home wiki or to merge local to global account
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"The home wiki for this account has a different password"

See URL: global account GMM doesn't exist, but ru.wikivoyage user GMM is asked for pt.wiki's GMM password to continue to global account creation.

AFAIK this shouldn't happen, I don't know what's going on exactly: Platonides, could the creation of the new local account by database fiat have had weird interactions with the change you made to forbid new local accounts conflicting with local accounts elsewhere?

Version: unspecified
Severity: major
URL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steward_requests/SUL_requests&oldid=4580938#GMM

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mergeaccounts1.PNG (434×929 px, 19 KB)

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 1:05 AM
• bzimport added a project: WMF-General-or-Unknown.
• bzimport set Reference to bz42106.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
Nemo_bis created this task.Nov 14 2012, 6:48 PM
Nemo_bis added a comment.Nov 17 2012, 12:43 PM

Reducing priority as I've been able to create the global account with a workaround.
The ru.wikivoyage account is still no seen by CentralAuth, so it's impossible for the user to use Special:MergeAccounts from ru.voy or to merge the account from other wikis where the local account is attached to the global.

Nemo_bis added a comment.Nov 17 2012, 12:44 PM

Created attachment 11386
"No accounts could be confirmed using this password"

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noaccounts.png (614×797 px, 56 KB)

hoo added a comment.Mar 3 2013, 6:39 PM

As the issue for this particular user has been resolved we can't do any database lookups for this anymore. Is this still an issue for someone? If not, I'd rather close this as this seems like a migration hiccup only affecting few users (maybe only the one mentioned).

Dzahn added a comment.Aug 10 2013, 1:55 AM

agree to the last comment by Marius, close as migration hiccup, very unlikely this is still coming up.

ori closed this task as Resolved.Jun 29 2016, 4:54 AM
ori claimed this task.
Nemo_bis edited projects, added SUL-Finalization; removed WMF-General-or-Unknown.Jul 24 2016, 8:41 PM
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