diff --git a/lemur/auth/views.py b/lemur/auth/views.py
index ce38d5d8..60f4e246 100644
--- a/lemur/auth/views.py
+++ b/lemur/auth/views.py
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ class Google(Resource):
 
         user = user_service.get_by_email(profile['email'])
 
-        if not user.active:
+        if not (user and user.active):
             metrics.send('login', 'counter', 1, metric_tags={'status': FAILURE_METRIC_STATUS})
             return dict(message='The supplied credentials are invalid.'), 403
 
diff --git a/lemur/common/defaults.py b/lemur/common/defaults.py
index bb49c5b7..3eba7be0 100644
--- a/lemur/common/defaults.py
+++ b/lemur/common/defaults.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from lemur.constants import SAN_NAMING_TEMPLATE, DEFAULT_NAMING_TEMPLATE
 def text_to_slug(value):
     """Normalize a string to a "slug" value, stripping character accents and removing non-alphanum characters."""
 
-    # Strip all character accents (ä => a): decompose Unicode characters and then drop combining chars.
+    # Strip all character accents: decompose Unicode characters and then drop combining chars.
     value = ''.join(c for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', value) if not unicodedata.combining(c))
 
     # Replace all remaining non-alphanumeric characters with '-'. Multiple characters get collapsed into a single dash.