Bug 194695 - ``Reset password'' on the web PR interface broken
Summary: ``Reset password'' on the web PR interface broken
Status: Closed Not A Bug
Alias: None
Product: Services
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Bug Tracker (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Many People
Assignee: Bugmeister
URL: http://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ente...
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Reported: 2014-10-29 19:04 UTC by Timo Buhrmester
Modified: 2014-10-29 22:35 UTC (History)
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Description Timo Buhrmester 2014-10-29 19:04:00 UTC
The ``reset password'' mechanism on https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi seems broken.

(tl;dr: It interprets usernames as email address, and email addresses as usernames)

It says: ``If you have an account, but have forgotten your password, enter your login name below and submit a request to change your password.''

Done that, it replies: ``The e-mail address you entered (fstd) didn't pass our syntax checking for a legal email address.''

Fair enough, so apparently it does not want my user name, but my email address instead.

Done that, it replies: ``There is no user named 'fstd@example.com'. Either you mis-typed the name or that user has not yet registered for a FreeBSD Bugzilla account.''

So there's currently no way to reset a lost password than to register a new account.

Best,
Timo Buhrmester
Comment 1 Timo Buhrmester 2014-10-29 19:15:49 UTC
Sorry, I guess that was a brain fart on my side. (OTOH the system using the phrases 'login name' and '[a] user named', added to the confusion.  It should perhaps make clear that the login/user name in fact is the email address).

Other than that, this issue is moot.  Sorry for the noise.