[Haskell-cafe] OAuth on gitlab.haskell.org

[Julian Brunner]

Thank you for the information.

I do not know what changed since when I tried it on Friday, but the
password reset worked today, so I can access my account again.

Thank you!

On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 6:39 AM Bryan Richter <bryan at haskell.foundation> wrote:
>
> Sorry, when I said "this mailing list" I thought I was talking to ghc-devs at haskell.org! Perhaps *this* list *would* have been better.
>
> Here was the message: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2023-May/021222.html
>
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2023, 7.37 Bryan Richter, <bryan at haskell.foundation> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Julian, sorry for the trouble.
>>
>> You *should* be able to use password reset on GitLab in order to create a password and log in with it. Others have done this.
>>
>> I turned off GitHub oauth because there was a deluge of spam accounts that were bypassing account approval by using it. I do want to turn it back on eventually, but we need to do some other work first to have better spam protection.
>>
>> This mailing list is where I announced the change when it happened. I do wish I had a better way to reach active users who might run into this...
>>
>> Let me know if you continue to have trouble getting in.
>>
>> -Bryan
>>
>> On Fri, 25 Aug 2023, 19.00 Julian Brunner, <julianbrunner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I last used gitlab.haskell.org in 2022 via OAuth on my GitHub account.
>>> However, this seems to no longer be an option. The account itself
>>> (https://gitlab.haskell.org/julianbrunner) seems to still exist, but I
>>> am unable to log in or request a password reset. I could not find any
>>> way to contact anyone on gitlab.haskell.org or any information on the
>>> removal of the OAuth option. Does anyone know how I can get my account
>>> back or who I should contact to get this sorted out?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>  Julian
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