[perl #61870] [BUG] [META] Trac system borks authenticated user's privileges

[Allison Randal]

Allison Randal wrote:
> Our trac admins report that this is caused by users who don't have their 
> email authenticated (that is, Trac sends you a test email, and you 
> confirm that you got it, so Trac knows the address is valid). When we 
> upgraded, existing users needed to re-authenticate their email 
> addresses, but the upgrade process doesn't include resending the 
> authentication emails.
> 
> When you update your email address in trac, it should resend the 
> authentication request. Once you confirm the change, you'll be set.

I just confirmed this with my account. Adding a name and email address 
under 'Preferences' destroyed my privileges, and made the following 
error message appear at the top of each page:

Warning: <acct_mgr.web_ui.MessageWrapper object at 0x814f76cc>

It also emailed me a verification message, and once I followed the steps 
in the message, my permissions were all restored.


Our admins also mentioned that this unhelpful error message is filed as 
a bug in the TracAccountManager plugin:

http://trac-hacks.org/ticket/4125

Allison