Re: [Mailman-Developers] Merging users

On 7/21/15 9:39 AM, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
This is a generic issue for us too; not just migration-related. I also would support consolidation/merging of Postorius users to solve this.
In fact, there are a few inter-related blockers for us:
a) authenticating as the wrong email address + attempt to add subscribed email as alternate (especially happens with social-type logins where correcting the authenticated email is a pain) b) cannot social-authenticate as an email address which is an alternate, not the primary c) attempting to social-authenticate as an email address which exists but has no account ... at least I think this is what is described by https://bugs.launchpad.net/postorius/+bug/1227461 (no matching gitlab bug)
Eric

Hi Eric,
On 21 July 2015 at 23:31, Eric Searcy <eric@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
I don't get any error while adding an already existing user. However, since I don't have postfix setup, I can't verify the address from email. I can however. do it from the backend.
b) cannot social-authenticate as an email address which is an alternate, not the primary
So, it is correct that you cannot social-authenticate to the same account using an alternate address. I am thinking about how we can fix this. However, this is not a very critical bug. Even if you login into two seperate Postorius accounts, the underlying MailmanUser is the same. You can view your subscriptions from both the addresses in both the accounts. Also, you can change subscriptions to other alternate addresses in both the accounts.
I checked out this one it is no more a bug. I can login with person to an address that already exists and is not associated with any account.
However, note that I am using the master branch from source code.
-- thanks, Abhilash Raj

Hi Eric,
On 21 July 2015 at 23:31, Eric Searcy <eric@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
I don't get any error while adding an already existing user. However, since I don't have postfix setup, I can't verify the address from email. I can however. do it from the backend.
b) cannot social-authenticate as an email address which is an alternate, not the primary
So, it is correct that you cannot social-authenticate to the same account using an alternate address. I am thinking about how we can fix this. However, this is not a very critical bug. Even if you login into two seperate Postorius accounts, the underlying MailmanUser is the same. You can view your subscriptions from both the addresses in both the accounts. Also, you can change subscriptions to other alternate addresses in both the accounts.
I checked out this one it is no more a bug. I can login with person to an address that already exists and is not associated with any account.
However, note that I am using the master branch from source code.
-- thanks, Abhilash Raj
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