On 4/16/19 7:59 AM, Andrew Otto wrote:
> Great! Is this just for Wikitech itself or all ldap/wikitech
> authentication?
This notice is related to a change in mediawiki code, so concerns direct
logins to wikitech itself. That said, the 2fa key used by Horizon is
stored in a the wikitech database, so it's vaguely possible that Horizon
logins could be disrupted as well.
Other services that rely on ldap for account creation (e.g. gerrit,
icinga, etc.) are unaffected, although they may have unrelated
case-(in)sensitive issues of their own.
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 7:56 PM Bryan Davis <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> A change was deployed to the Wikitech config 2019-04-15T23:16 UTC
>> which prevents users from logging into the wiki with a username that
>> differs in case from the 'cn' value for their developer account.
>>
>> This change is not expected to cause problems for most users, but
>> there may be some people who have historically entered a username with
>> mismatched case (for example "bryandavis" instead of "BryanDavis") and
>> relied on MediaWiki and the LdapAuthentication plugin figuring things
>> out. This will no longer happen automatically. These users will need
>> to update their password managers (or brains if they are not using a
>> password manager) to supply the username with correct casing.
>>
>> The "wrongpassword" error message on Wikitech has been updated with a
>> local override to help people discover this problem. See
>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165795> for more details.
>>
>> Bryan, on behalf of the Cloud Services team
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A change was deployed to the Wikitech config 2019-04-15T23:16 UTC
which prevents users from logging into the wiki with a username that
differs in case from the 'cn' value for their developer account.
This change is not expected to cause problems for most users, but
there may be some people who have historically entered a username with
mismatched case (for example "bryandavis" instead of "BryanDavis") and
relied on MediaWiki and the LdapAuthentication plugin figuring things
out. This will no longer happen automatically. These users will need
to update their password managers (or brains if they are not using a
password manager) to supply the username with correct casing.
The "wrongpassword" error message on Wikitech has been updated with a
local override to help people discover this problem. See
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165795> for more details.
Bryan, on behalf of the Cloud Services team
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Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC**
on #wikimedia-tech.
Question can be asked in English, Persian, Hindi & Kannada!
⏰ Please note: due to European summer time change the meetings now start at
3 pm UTC! ⏰
The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer
developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help
you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This
can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best
contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
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The OSM postgresql database service, usually accessed via osmdb.eqiad.wmnet is moving to a new server. Currently the server is a read replica of the primary database, and should be accessible via the DNS alias of osm.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs.
As detailed here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219652 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219652>, osmdb.eqiad.wmnet will be changed to point at the osm.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs. For a brief time that will make those tables that aren’t always read-only also read-only while DNS updates. Then the replica will be promoted to the master, and the rest of the steps should not cause any impact.
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As you may have been aware, we've been working on changing how MediaWiki
stores "actors", meaning the user account or IP address that performed the
edit, logged action, and so on. Instead of having user ID and name fields
in each revision (rev_user+rev_user_text), log entry
(log_user+log_user_text), and so on, we're storing the ID and name in a
central "actor" table and referring to them by the actor ID from other
tables (log_actor and so on).
We've been writing to the new fields and tables since mid-December 2018,
and have back-populated them for old revisions, log entries, and so on.
We're about to start changing Wikimedia's production wikis to start reading
the new fields instead of the old.
For the most part wiki users shouldn't notice any changes, however if you
notice something being newly slow or incorrectly displaying the user,
please let me know.
For users of the Data Services replicas, such as Toolforge, the views do
still include the old columns and they will be simulated even after
MediaWiki stops writing them. But, for the non-compat views, this *will*
change in the future as it recently did for the comment columns, so you may
want to begin your migration process soon rather than waiting.
MediaWiki developers should make sure code accessing user fields makes use
of the ActorMigration class that was introduced in MediaWiki 1.31.
You can watch https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188327 (and any subtasks)
for more information on the deployment process.
Note that accesses to the actor table may be slow, as are accesses to the
comment table. Improving that situation is being tracked at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215445.
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The legacy Ubuntu Trusty grid engine job grid has been shutdown!
Thanks to everyone who was involved in migrating existing tools from
the old grid to the Kubernetes cluster or the new Debian Stretch job
grid.
There were still 385 tools that may have been running jobs or
webservices on the Trusty grid at the time of shutdown. A static list
of these tools is preserved at
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/trusty-tools/>.
Instructions are still available at
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Trusty_deprecation>
for migrating tools that are currently down.
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Because of some issues mounting NFS on the PAWS master, it is being rebooted. Traffic to the front page has already been routed through another node, but server creation won’t work until after the reboot is complete.
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Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **(Wednesday) 4-5 pm UTC**
on #wikimedia-tech.
Question can be asked in English, German & Romanian.
⏰ Please note: due to summer time change this week will be the last meeting
at 4 pm UTC. Beginning with next week the meeting will start at 3 pm! ⏰
The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer
developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help
you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This
can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best
contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
Hope to see you there!
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teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
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As previously announced on this list [0][1] we are in the process of
replacing the old Ubuntu Trusty instances in Toolforge with fancy new
Debian Stretch instances.
This process is reaching its next major milestone on Monday
2019-03-25. During the general US workday on that date (14:00-00:00
UTC) the Toolforge admin team will be dismantling the legacy Ubuntu
Trusty job grid. Any tools that have not migrated to either the
Stretch grid or the Kubernetes cluster at that point will be forcibly
shutdown. Nothing will be deleted in the tools' $HOME directories, but
any Trusty grid jobs will be stopped. Any crontab file remaining on
the
old grid's cron server will be archived as
"$HOME/crontab.trusty.save". Maintainers who somehow missed all of the
announcements will be able to login and restart their tools on the
Stretch grid or Kubernetes.
See <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Trusty_deprecation>
for additional information and tips on common problems that have been
found thus far.
[0]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud-announce/2019-January/000122.ht…
[1]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud-announce/2019-March/000142.html
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Hello dear wikifriends,
Yesterday I've sent a job called 'itwiki-orphanizerbot' to the grid using 'jsub -once'. It should ends in minutes. In fact, from my log.out I see yesterday it is apparently quitted successfully, but today I can't run it again with '-once' because it says it's already active.
I followed the [[Help:Toolforge/Grid#Stuck jobs]] but apparently I have not fixed the situation and it's still active.
Tl;dr;
How to kill my 'itwiki-orphanizerbot' task?
Thank you!
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