[00:00:40] * bd808 keeps digging
[00:01:06] <tgr>	 yeah, in general createAndPromote is pretty fragile, it won't play nice with something like CentralAuth either
[00:01:19] <tgr>	 I don't think anything changed there since AuthManager was created
[00:01:42] <bd808>	 I *know* this used to work.
[00:02:21] <tgr>	 the nice thing to do would probably be to use AuthManager::autoCreateUser instead of manual user creation
[00:02:50] <bd808>	 but I don't know when it stopped working other than since the last time I tried to setup a new Striker dev environment which could have been more than a year ago :/
[00:04:12] <tgr>	 something somewhere could have called AuthPlugin::initUser and stopped doing that (AuthManager doesn't quite have an equivalent) but git pickaxe comes up empty
[00:11:06] <tgr>	 so yeah I'd say add an AUTOCREATE_SOURCE_MAINT constant to AuthManager, replace the contents of the if ( !$exists ) block with AuthManager::autoCreateUser( $user, AuthManager::AUTOCREATE_SOURCE_MAINT, false ), cross your fingers and hope for the best
[00:11:17] <tgr>	 in theory that should work
[00:11:42] <tgr>	 and should make createAndPromote work correctly with CentralAuth and whatnot
[00:11:56] <bd808>	 its worth a shot :)