[aur-general] Not able to register with the AUR site

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 at 18:33:48, Karthik K wrote:
> Able to register now. This is the message, I get after the register page
> 
> The account, *<username>*, has been successfully created.
> A password reset key has been sent to your e-mail address.
> 
> Following the link in the mail takes me to a password reset page, where I
> can set a new password and am able to login with these credentials now.
> 
> This whole workflow seems wrong. Why should a person be directed to a
> password reset page when he is registering a new account? I already have an
> account at Arch Wiki with the same credentials. Do both AUR and the wiki
> use the same accounts? Is this why my new account registration request at
> AUR was actually considered as a password change request?
> 

No, the wiki and the AUR use different accounts. The password reset form
is used to set an initial password for your AUR account. Maybe we should
use a different title when that page is accessed via the link in the
welcome email...