Control: retitle -1 Fingerprint checker on newnm.html should warn if the fingerprint is already known Control: tag -1 confirmed Control: severity -1 normal
Hi, On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 03:19:19AM +0200, Mathias Behrle wrote: > I tried to register on 2015-10-02 for a new account, but got on submitting > > Serverfehler (500) > There's been an error. It's been reported to the site administrators via > e-mail and should be fixed shortly. Thanks for your patience. > > I rechecked today and see that the entry indeed was created succesfully, but > that the problem is with the email challenge. > Retriggering the challenge at > https://nm.debian.org/public/newnm/resend_challenge/yangoon > fails again with this error. So I am currently unable to confirm my account. For both of you the problem is that you already have accounts because you're already DMs. (Sebastien's had been created with his surname as a middle name, which didn't help.) The script which imports people has no safe way to tell if you have an Alioth username, so when you later want to become DD it's quite misleading. To fix the immediate problems please contact Front Desk with a signed mail confirming your Alioth account and the URL to you page and the links can be made manually. There are two underlying problems to the behaviour: - the error 500 appears because the new account has no fingerprint, and it tries to encrypt a message to it - the account creation page does not check if a person is known to the system except whether they are logged in As a documentation fix, I've added a note to DMs on the account creation page which should at least remove any confusion. A better fix would be to have the page warn if a fingerprint is already known, which almost certainly means a duplicate account is being created. The handler should also fail to create an account with a suitable message if the fingerprint is being duplicated. -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51
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