NOTE: We have the same issue on review.linaro.org for several active users. I'm fixing the problem for the affected users and will send each person an email with instructions.

On 04/29/2016 01:59 PM, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:

Hello,

Summary: Your SSH username on https://android-review.linaro.org will now match Linaro username (first.last) after the next login. You local repository clones need to be updated for new username.

Detailed description: https://android-review.linaro.org was the first Gerrit server in Linaro, when there were no central LDAP user database yet. As a result, there were free-form SSH usernames used, instead of the later standard first.last as used on all the other Gerrit servers. This inconsistency was a subject of background concern for Systems team, but of course not something having enough priority to "fix". However, Gerrit 2.12.2 upgrade started tonight uncovered following issue: Gerrit tries to synchronize its SSH username setting with LDAP, and fails, as Gerrits own rules disallow changing of username. The symptom of this is error "Authentication temporary unavailable" when a user with "old" SSH username tries to login via browser.

While this can be classified as a Gerrit bug (and previous versions were smart enough), we'll unlikely find any timely solution to keep things as they are. So, it makes sense to take a chance of cleaning up username and making this server follow standard username conventions. Consequently:

1. All usernames which don't match "first.last" pattern are reset.
2. If you are affected, you won't be able to perform SSH operations

(like git clone/push) until you login via web interface. 3. On the next login via web interface, it will be set to LDAP's "first.last" value. 4. You will need to update remotes of your existing git clones to new username (or alternatively, re-clone). 5. If you already use "first.last" SSH username, you're unaffected.

The list of users affected is given below. While it seems long, majority of enrties there are for people no longer at Linaro, or for community accounts (which didn't work since we switched to LDAP anyway). If you need further assistance, please open a ticket at https://servicedesk.linaro.org/servicedesk/customer/portal/4 .

Thanks, Paul

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