Cannot login after editing email addresses

Question

I have Gerrit v3.0.0 running on my server, everything was working fine yesterday.

Here\'s my authentication method :

[auth]
    type = http
         


        

Answer 1

So it appears I was on the right path after all.

What I did :

Cause of the bug

I changed the email of my account, and then changed the preferred email. Gerrit doesn't seem to support that and messed up with the external-id's.

Cause of the second bug

I deleted the external-id for the account I couldn't log in to (Either use API endpoints https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/rest-api-accounts.html or fetch All-Users:refs/meta/external-id)

But I deleted not only the mailto:@.com external-id but also gerrit:.

After that, nothing I tried allowed me to log back in again.

Resolution

• I cloned external ids using git clone "ssh://@.com:/All-Users" && git fetch origin refs/meta/external-ids && git checkout FETCH_HEAD
• I created a new external-id in All-Users:refs/meta/external-id with the following:

    [externalId "gerrit:"]
        accountId = 
        email = @.com

Note: the name of this file is the SHA1 of gerrit:.

• I pushed my changes to Gerrit with git push origin HEAD:refs/meta/external-ids

Note: You need to edit All-Users accesses in order to be allowed to push this.

And it all worked again.

Feel free to add anything to this, it might not be very thorough.