Hi all,
I run a bot on two different languages of Wikipedia, with different usernames. This seems to result in some authentication issues when I come back to en-WP after having successfully authenticated on the other WP (Norwegian, in this case). I'm prompted for my password, enter it correctly, and then get prompted again, and this can apparently continue for as long as I'm bothered to enter passwords.
I've been thinking about looking more closely into this issue, but was wondering if this actually is something that I should look into, or whether it's a feature. Seems to me that running different pywikibot directories for different languages could solve it, instead of attempting to code for it.
Would appreciate other people's thoughts on this.
Regards, Morten
Le 10/08/2010 17:17, Morten Wang a écrit :
I run a bot on two different languages of Wikipedia, with different usernames. This seems to result in some authentication issues when I come back to en-WP after having successfully authenticated on the other WP (Norwegian, in this case). I'm prompted for my password, enter it correctly, and then get prompted again, and this can apparently continue for as long as I'm bothered to enter passwords.
Would appreciate other people's thoughts on this.
Is one (or both) of these accounts unified ? In this case it could be a problem with centralauth_* cookies. Just a random thought.
--stan.
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:56 AM, stanlekub stanlekub@free.fr wrote:
Is one (or both) of these accounts unified ? In this case it could be a problem with centralauth_* cookies. Just a random thought.
Yes, the Norwegian account is unified, the other is not. I did suspect that CentralAuth was the culprit given the cookie information stored, so your random thought is in line with the random thoughts I had, except mine were less specific. Thanks!
Cheers, Morten
Thought I'd post an update on this issue for the archives. Once both accounts were unified, the authentication problem went away, so I chose to not look further into it.
Cheers, Morten
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