Re: Can't Save Preferences

[Luke <..hidden..>]

Hi Chris

On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Chris Travers wrote:

> Having looked at it, your sense here appears to be correct.  Try the
> attached patch and let me know how it works for you in terms of:
>
> 1)  Users already existing that you re-save in the admin.pl interface and
> 2)  New users you create.

First of all, the patch works to let me change preferences for extant 
users.

However, whether you change employee to have a login with the @ version, 
or create a new user with the @ version, as soon as that user logs in, a 
new employee table entry (with a new ID) is created, without the @.
Nothing in the address field.

So, if you create:

a@b

then check employee, you will have a login of:

a@b

If a@b then logs in, you will have an employee table with logins of:

a
a@b

The one with the @ version is the one which receives name updates; the one 
without the @ doesn't change.
The users_conf table elements do get correctly updated.

After login, the user under "version" appears as the non-at-signed 
version.
Before the patch, an @ user appeared with its rhs.

We can keep at this, or you can declare that @ is an invalid character for 
usernames, install code to disallow it, and I will change all my 
usernames. 
Probably not many LSMB users were using that feature anyway, since it 
never worked as it did in SL.

Luke