Comment # 5 on bug 1191433 from Malcolm Lewis

(In reply to Frank Steiner from comment #4)
> Very strange... When I chose password reset and entered frank-steiner, the
> system sent me an email with a link for resetting the password for this
> user. Shouldn't it be the same user/pw for all the opensuse.org services
> like bugzilla, forum, wiki etc.?
> And when I tried to register and chose frank-steiner as username it said the
> name would already exist. And in contrast to other combinations the login
> doesn't throw the "username/passwort combination is invalid", so it
> recognizes the user and pw as correct.
> 
> Very confusing... It sounds like the username/pw exists in
> idp-portal.suse.com but is not registered for using the forums. Is that
> possible?
> 
> I also tried to recover the pw for user FrankSteiner as it is one of my
> emails, but it says there was no contact information for this user and so
> the pw could not be recovered...
> 
> And I registered a new user from the "register" link on the forums page,
> frank-steiner2. It's the same: I enter the username and pw at the login link
> and am sent back to the forums page without error, but I'm not logged in.

Hi
Drop the dash "-" from your username.... the Forum has issue with that and
noted in the welcome screen (when not logged in).