On 21 October 2016 at 10:13, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
- Gerrit does not seem to support oauth authentication. I vaguely
remember that the gerrit account used to be linked to the mw.org account. Is there any way I could use the mw.org auth to retrieve the gerrit account and/or authenticate to gerrit with it? The gerrit uploader seems to only use the mw account to put the username in the committer field and then uploads the change as itself.
Gerrit uses LDAP authentication, which is controlled by wikitech.wikimedia.org and matches accounts there. This is separate to Wikimedia SUL which controls accounts on wikis like mediawiki.org. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148048 and the bottom of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Tool_Labs_support/Tool_Labs_v...