On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 6:13 AM Dirk Hünniger via Cloud cloud@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi,
I am running a rendering service for converting wiki articles to downloadable formates
https://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/
I can log into the machine via ssh. But I cannot access the horizon administration web interface anymore. After some research I found out that is because of my last name Hünniger which contains the Umlaut ü. It has been suggested that I create a new account call "Dirk Huenniger" and transfer the administration rights for the mediawiki2latex project on horizon to this new account. Is this a good idea? And if so what are the steps I need to take in order to reach that? Currently I do not really need to horizon web interface, but the current situation is a thread for the long term stability of the mediawik2latex web service.
The Cloud Services team believes that this bug has been fixed since 2019-12-23 [0]. This authentication problem was caused by a buggy LDAP library integration in OpenStack. We "fixed" the problem for the Wikitech wiki by removing legacy OpenStack integration there. The problem was fixed more correctly for Horizon by backporting a newer python-ldap library which does not have the same unicode handling issues.
If you are still unable to authenticate to Horizon, please do open a new Phabricator task giving as many details as you can about the issue and we will try to find a solution.
[0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229227
Bryan