945279 - can't edit profiles if account email is on multiple accounts

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Profiles, defect)

Description

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

We receive bug reports when someone is unable to edit their profile because it has a duplicate email address to another profile. E.g., https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924758 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=938319

The underlying error is a MultipleObjectsReturned error from User.objects.get():

https://errormill.mozilla.org/mdn/mdn/group/121218/

We should update the code to handle when a profile shares an email address.

1. Use the profile.user_id for the lookup in UserProfileEditForm.save()
2. (Optional) Show a warning to the user that they have a duplicate account?

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Also this lead to page move being broken (if the user has the right) without any error message.

Comment 3

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Thanks for looking at this, sayan. Please needinfo? me here if you have questions.

Comment 4

[sayan.chowdhury2012]

Hi,

I checked for this error by trying to change my email id in the edit profile page, it takes me to a page that says "Permission Denied". Can you tell how can i reproduce this bug?

Comment 5

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

That might be bug 906883. Which might be a more valuable bug to fix first. ;)

Comment 6

[Jannis Leidel [:jezdez]]

This should have been fixed in the current production version of MDN since we've refactored the user profile form to not use the email address anymore to identify a user account.