[ckan-discuss] My thedatahub.org accounts appear to have been deleted

Mon Jul 25 09:31:56 BST 2011

On 25 July 2011 09:28, Tim McNamara <tim.mcnamara at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 25 July 2011 20:07, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> On 25 July 2011 06:34, Tim McNamara <tim.mcnamara at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> The accounts that I use for CKAN with Google authentication have both
>>> had their edit counts reduced to zero and API keys changed. I assume
>>> that means that the accounts were deleted and when I logged in again,
>>> new accounts were established. Does anyone know what's happened there?
>>> Has there been a database migration recently?
>>
>> I don't believe there has been any migration affecting accounts. In
>> addition my account is unaffected and still working. I would note that
>> if you are trying to use google openid to login to thedatahub and used
>> it to login to ckan.net it won't work because (annoyingly) google
>> generate different 'openid' urls for you for different sites. Hence if
>> you use google openid to login to thedatahub you will end up with a
>> new account vis a vis your one on ckan.net. This obviously won't
>> happen with normal login or use of another openid provider.
>
> Ah - that makes sense. Would it be possible for user "timClicks" to be
> granted admin access?

Done.

Rufus