[2038] in Moira
Re: access service for outgoing mailers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Oct 20 15:44:14 2003
Message-Id: <200310201944.h9KJiBIK020007@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, Mark Silis <mark@MIT.EDU>,
moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:41:14 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:44:10 -0400
> >> When selecting users, you have 'WHERE status != 3' I think you want to
> >> exclude status 0 too (which is users who have not yet selected a
> >> username, and the placeholder in moira is '#<uid>'.) Statuses 4, 8, and
> >> 9 are also questionable to me, but I'm not 100% sure it is safe to
> >> exclude these, so I'd leave them in, unless Garry says otherwise.
>
> I would use "status = 1 or status = 2 or status = 5 or status = 6";
> status 8 is analagous to status 0, and status 9 people are defined to
> only be a kerberos principal. I don't think I've ever encountered a
> status 4 record and remembered it, but the code indicates status 4 is
> intended to just be a placeholder.
I know accounts uses status 4 for placeholders after username changes,
but don;'t know if it is used for anything else. I think accounts
also creates a mailing list in the username change case, but I wasn't
positive that that was always true, which is one reason I was unsure
of the state of that status.
Jonathon
