Problem with Shibboleth login: email conflict
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Description
What steps does it take to reproduce the issue?
Create 2 builtin user accounts in Dataverse, with username test_user, test_user1 with email address not equal to test_user@testemail
Login via Shibboleth with the email address test_user@testemail
Accept the term and click the create account button
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When does this issue occur?
When new user login via Shibboleth -
Which page(s) does it occurs on?
When user login via Shibboleth and create new account -
What happens?
After clicking the Create Account button, the page keeps loading but cannot create a new account -
To whom does it occur (all users, curators, superusers)?
User Login via Shibboleth -
What did you expect to happen?
The user can create a new account successfully with username test_user2
Which version of Dataverse are you using?
Dataverse v5.5
Any related open or closed issues to this bug report?
https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/Jo7Uhn5lDe8
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Research direction
No file or test is named. Start by reproducing the Shibboleth login and account-creation flow with the two conflicting builtin accounts, then trace the account-creation path handling the existing email. Done means a new user can create the expected test_user2 account successfully.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- authentication, backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100