This account works, I use it for general (and sometimes newbie) queries.
I’m trying to set up another (more professional looking one) for publishing an app on COPR, but it gets rejected - I get told that the username already exists. When I try to log in with that email address I get told it doesn’t exist. If I search for users with that name, it doesn’t exist.
Where can I get help to sort this out?
Did both accounts use the same email address?
No, athough they are both Yahoo accounts and one is a Yahoo “alias”.
I think I need to talk to a moderator.
We are about to vote (in a week or two) about new rules for the forums, and one of these proposed rules is to limit the number of accounts people can have to one, except in approved cases.
I think it is fine to have one account and mix ‘newbie’ questions with ‘professional’ publishing in Copr. Tell your story in one place, it’s okay to be great at one thing and learning in other areas.
Is this a second account on the Fedora accounts system? You should be able to create one as long as the username is unique.
What username are you looking at for the new one?
Note that the moderators here can’t do much about people creating multiple Fedora accounts, but we’re discouraging people from using them all here on the forum, since that could be problematic. That’s what the discussion is about (as far as I know, but I’ll go double-check).
The accounts here are simply linked to the fedora account system. So if we find an issue there, we need to file it with the infra folks that maintain it.
IMHO
If you disallow 2 accounts on the same email address, people will just use another one, and you won’t know who is doing it (I don’t know whether you could do something technical like checking IP addresses).
If you allow it, you will know who is doing it and could investigate why and whether you approved of it.
What is this?
Associated accounts
0 Auth 2
I’ve solved it by abandoning the second account that was in some sort of limbo, and opening a third.