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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

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[Solved] How to report issues with aur web interface as regular user ?

There's an annoying issue with the aur web interface that I'd like to report.

The link for reporting such bugs on the aur home page points to https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/issues .
Unfortunately you need to be logged in to create a new issue.

There's no option to create an account and the only supported method to login is archlinux SSO .
Since i'm not an arch dev , tu , devops team member etc but just a regular archlinux user I don't have such a login.

Does anybody know how/where I can file an issue with the aur web interface ?

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2023-04-18 16:07:23)

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seth

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Re: [Solved] How to report issues with aur web interface as regular user ?

It allows me to login w/ github

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: [Solved] How to report issues with aur web interface as regular user ?

After clicking archlinux sso it does show a list of my bbs/aur and a few other archlinux related accounts.
When they fail I get a button "sign in with github' and I do have a github.com account .

Unfortunately github wants me to setup mobile authentication which left me no choice but to abort.

I don't want archlinux , github or microsoft (owner of github)  to have more of my personal data then is absolutely necessary .
Guess I'll just wait until a more privacy-friendly login method is available (like hardware key or a TOTP application ).

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2023-04-18 12:56:48)

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seth

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Re: [Solved] How to report issues with aur web interface as regular user ?

Did you try to register an arch SSO account?
https://accounts.archlinux.org/realms/a … olOu94bct0

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [Solved] How to report issues with aur web interface as regular user ?

Gives the exact same "mobile authenticator setup" screen as when trying to use github login .

It shows "Install one of the following applications on your mobile" and lists a some android & IOS apps, nothing suitable on other devices.
Sorry, no "smart" phone available here. (and if there was one it wouldn't run those OSes)

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Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] How to report issues with aur web interface as regular user ?

IIRC, it just needs TOTP, and there are plenty of ways to do that on Arch. I use KeePassXC, but I know there are cli options.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [Solved] How to report issues with aur web interface as regular user ?

I settled for using the oathtool command from oath-toolkit and managed to create an account. Not entirely happy with the username (seems that was copied from github in previous attempts) , but everything works.

Thanks for all help, feature request added to archweb bugtracker.

Lone_Wolf

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