[Savannah-hackers] Re: Unable to create new user on Savannah

[Mathieu Roy]

Brion Vibber <address@hidden> said:

> I've been trying to register as a new user via:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/account/register.php
> 
> My name isn't common, so I was surprised to be told that:
> 
>   User vibber is a known mail alias and cannot be used. If you own this
>   alias (address@hidden) please create a another user (for instance
>   xxvibber) and ask address@hidden to rename it to vibber."
> 
> I was doubly surprised to find that the same was true of all other
> variations of my name, not to mention any random strings I could come up
> with. Same on savannah.gnu.org and savannah.nongnu.org, save the domain
> name in the error message.
> 
> I suspect there's something a little wrong going on here?

There is indeed something weird:

address@hidden:~$ finger address@hidden
[gnu.org]
finger: vibber: no such user.


Loic, as the one the most familiar with those matters, can you check
or give me clues?

Brion, would you, in the meantime, try with an account called for
instance brion?

Regards,

-- 
Mathieu Roy
 
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