[Labs-l] help creating an account

[Platonides]

On 09/11/12 06:50, Jeremy Baron wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Sumana Harihareswara
> <sumanah at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Error: "There was either an authentication database error or you are not
>> allowed to update your external account."
> 
> Done: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jeremyb?offset=20121109050600&limit=2&dir=prev
> 
> I wrote <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/?diff=589807&oldid=589784>:
>> :::{{done}} with a few changes. Looks like (empirically) we don't allow _ in
>> shell usernames so I changed it to a -. Please check your email for
>> [[labsconsole:Help:Access#Initial login and password change|a temporary
>> password to use to log in]]. --[[User:Jeremyb|Jeremyb]] ([[User
>> talk:Jeremyb|talk]]) 16:47, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
> 
> -Jeremy

It's possible that it is trying to make the shell account with a space
instead of an underscore, as they are equivalent for MediaWiki.