Changes to KDE Identity / UserBase wiki login

Ben Cooksley bcooksley at kde.org
Thu May 4 07:06:22 UTC 2017


On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Toskin <summerfallsaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, yes, I've been in the process of gradually phasing out my gmail accounts

Hi Andrew,

> for a while, but email servers are complicated, so in the meanwhile, my
> custom @tosk.in email only redirects to the gmail addresses. I think I've
> added and confirmed all addresses my Identity that the wiki account could
> have been connected to. Let me know if I need to do anything else to help
> merge the accounts.

Thanks. I've now amended your former Userbase account to use your
@tosk.in address.
It should now automatically link when you next attempt to login to Userbase.

>
> Thanks,
> ~ Andrew Toskin
>

Cheers,
Ben

>
> On Mon, 2017-05-01 at 20:57 +1200, Ben Cooksley wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Andrew Toskin
> <summerfallsaway at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Today I decided to look at some of my old posts on the KDE forums and the
>
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
>
> UserBase wiki. It's been a while, and at some point the UserBase wiki
> switched to login with Phabricator, which still uses KDE Identity. Weird
> that I have to login to Identity to create a Phabricator account to login to
> UserBase. I'd thought the whole point of KDE Identity was to have a single
> account for managing all KDE websites...
>
> Well, I registered at the KDE Phabricator, but when I tried to then login to
> UserBase, I can't login to my "terrycloth" wiki account for some reason, and
> there's no password reset. And I can't create the "terrycloth" name because
> it already exists (it's mine!). I don't get it.
>
> How can I get into my UserBase account?
>
>
> I've investigated this issue and it is because your Identity, and thus
> Phabricator accounts are using different email addresses to your
> Userbase (Wiki) account (prior to it being Identity based).
>
> Also note that the email address you've emailed from is not the same
> as your Identity account, but does match your Wiki account.
>
> In order for me to align these, please confirm your control of the
> gmail.com address by adding it to your KDE Identity account.
> Once that is done, let me know and i'll adjust your Wiki account to
> have a matching address with your Identity & Phabricator entries,
> which should trigger an automatic account link.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> ~ Andrew Toskin
>
>
> Regards,
> Ben Cooksley
> KDE Sysadmin


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