I made a sign-in mess on l10n.gnome.org

Hey guys, I recently created an account on l10n.gnome.org to help translate something and I first wanted to use my GNOME gitlab account, which didn’t work out (I saw later that it isn’t supported).

So, without going back to the previous page, I saw an option beneath the Gitlab’s sign-in fields, to sign in using GitHub. And I clicked on that and connected my account to GitHub.

Now, funny thing: l10n thinks I’m connected via Gitlab :smile: it is displayed as such on my l10n “external accounts” page and I even get an email from gitlab@mg.gitlab.com telling me I signed in from a new location, even though I used my GitHub account, together with 2FA and all lol.

When I try to log in with GitHub directly it doesn’t work (there’s an issue open with that redirect_url). So the way I have to log in now is: click on “use gitlab” and then from there click on “use github”… then after signing in the redirect fails, but then I navigate to l10 and I’m signed in.

Now I can’t remove GitLab from my “external providers” and also can’t connect to my GitHub account from here (again, the redirect_url thing).

Anyways, it’s funny that l10n thinks I’m using GitLab even though I’m actually connected through GitHub :sweat_smile:

I can guarantee you that you logged-in with the GitLab.com provider. You even received an email from GitLab.com.

GitHub.com does not work: Attempting to link to GitHub account gives “The redirect_uri is not associated with this application.” (#657) · Issues · Infrastructure / damned-lies · GitLab.

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hmm.. wait a second.. yeah, that’s definitely true! your comment made me look into my GitHub account’s authorized apps and voilà: there’s gitlab.com in there and I have no idea when or why I ever connected those two :flushed_face: all is right, I just have the memory span of a fruit fly :see_no_evil_monkey:

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