Bug 1191433 - Login to forums.opensuse.org not possible
Summary: Login to forums.opensuse.org not possible
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE.org
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Wiki (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Malcolm Lewis
QA Contact: Adrian Schröter
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Reported: 2021-10-07 10:49 UTC by Frank Steiner
Modified: 2021-10-07 21:30 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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malcolmlewis: needinfo? (steiner-reg)


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Description Frank Steiner 2021-10-07 10:49:16 UTC
Hi,
I can't login into https://forums.opensuse.org/ although I did the migration a while ago. It does work fine for bugzilla.opensuse.org (as you can see :-)) and for SCC, but not for the forums. Maybe I missed some migration step.

Anyway, I resetted my password which worked fine, but still doesn't let me login. Created a new account with different username and password, but it's the same: no error message (so username+pw are correct), but the "Login" still shows and I have no permissions to post etc. 
Tried FF and Chromium, removed all cookies etc., still doesn't work...

Any ideas?

cu,
Frank
Comment 1 Malcolm Lewis 2021-10-07 16:55:42 UTC
Hi Frank
What is/was your Forum username?
Comment 2 Frank Steiner 2021-10-07 17:30:49 UTC
Sorry I forgot to mention that! It's frank-steiner
Comment 3 Malcolm Lewis 2021-10-07 17:38:24 UTC
(In reply to Frank Steiner from comment #2)
> Sorry I forgot to mention that! It's frank-steiner

Hi
The only user we have is FrankSteiner with an email of fsteiner-board{at}bio{dot}ifi{dot}lmu{dot}def back in 2016 with 1 post....
Comment 4 Frank Steiner 2021-10-07 20:12:02 UTC
Very strange... When I chose password reset and entered frank-steiner, the system sent me an email with a link for resetting the password for this user. Shouldn't it be the same user/pw for all the opensuse.org services like bugzilla, forum, wiki etc.?
And when I tried to register and chose frank-steiner as username it said the name would already exist. And in contrast to other combinations the login doesn't throw the "username/passwort combination is invalid", so it recognizes the user and pw as correct.

Very confusing... It sounds like the username/pw exists in idp-portal.suse.com but is not registered for using the forums. Is that possible?

I also tried to recover the pw for user FrankSteiner as it is one of my emails, but it says there was no contact information for this user and so the pw could not be recovered...

And I registered a new user from the "register" link on the forums page, frank-steiner2. It's the same: I enter the username and pw at the login link and am sent back to the forums page without error, but I'm not logged in.
Comment 5 Malcolm Lewis 2021-10-07 20:29:14 UTC
(In reply to Frank Steiner from comment #4)
> Very strange... When I chose password reset and entered frank-steiner, the
> system sent me an email with a link for resetting the password for this
> user. Shouldn't it be the same user/pw for all the opensuse.org services
> like bugzilla, forum, wiki etc.?
> And when I tried to register and chose frank-steiner as username it said the
> name would already exist. And in contrast to other combinations the login
> doesn't throw the "username/passwort combination is invalid", so it
> recognizes the user and pw as correct.
> 
> Very confusing... It sounds like the username/pw exists in
> idp-portal.suse.com but is not registered for using the forums. Is that
> possible?
> 
> I also tried to recover the pw for user FrankSteiner as it is one of my
> emails, but it says there was no contact information for this user and so
> the pw could not be recovered...
> 
> And I registered a new user from the "register" link on the forums page,
> frank-steiner2. It's the same: I enter the username and pw at the login link
> and am sent back to the forums page without error, but I'm not logged in.

Hi
Drop the dash "-" from your username.... the Forum has issue with that and noted in the welcome screen (when not logged in).
Comment 6 Frank Steiner 2021-10-07 21:30:05 UTC
Aha, ok, I'll try that tomorrow. Little bit unlucky, though, if there is a central id service for sharing logins between opensuse services when those have different restrictions for usernames.

Anyway, I oversaw the hint on the welcome page, so it is my fault! Thanks for your help and explanation!