broken malone login

[Brad Bollenbach]

On Tue, 2006-18-07 at 11:56 -0500, Mario Vano wrote:
> I have some sort of peculiar problem with malone's login, and so far, 
> have not been able to figure out how to resolve it!
> 
> I've been a member of the ubuntu forums for a long time. When malone 
> became the bug reporting mechanism, I followed the instructions to 
> create an account.
> 
> When I access the login dialog, I type the name and mailing address I 
> used to open the account, along with the password I used.
> 
> If I type the password correctly, I am returned to the point from which 
> I requested the login as if it had succeeded, BUT I AM NOT LOGGED IN.
> 
> If I deliberately type the password incorrectly, I get the mismatched 
> password dialog as expected until I type my password.
> 
> I've tried everything for several months now, including resetting the 
> password (which works fine, but the new password still won't let me log 
> in!), and changing browser settings (Ubuntu Dapper's firefox, with and 
> without scripting enabled).

Is your browser configured to accept cookies? I can reproduce the
problem you describe if I set my browser to not accept cookies.

And have you tried testing with a browser other than Firefox?

Brad