Last modified: 2012-04-25 22:05:37 UTC
I know, it was definitely known but today we performed a scientific trial about self-unlocking: stewards cannot unlock themselves. To me there are two possibilities: allow locked stewards to access centralauth or preventing stewards from locking other stewards...and well, a third one "doing nothing"!
I wouldn't consider this a bug at all. This should be normal. First, I don't see how it can be avoived, as lock prevents you from logging on completely. Second, it's the way a compromised or rogue steward account would be dealt with, immediate lock and be done with. Should you happen to lock yourself, as both you and I did, other stewards can unlock. I'm going to mark this as WONTFIX, as this is the intended purpose of the global account lock and as a fix would require substantial rethinking of the feature, ie it becoming global block for user (which is another and different feature). As for disabling the ability to locking other stewards, as I've said above, this is precisely how we deal with a compromised account, and should likely be preserved as such. (compared to stripping of the permissions, it could potentially stop the compromised from changing the emails and/or passwords)
