[834] in Moira
Re: more about the "cgs" thing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Tue Nov 22 21:04:07 1994
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 21:03:59 +0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Carla Fermann <carla@MIT.EDU>, moira-admin@MIT.EDU, moiradev@MIT.EDU
Cc: pjb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: dkk@MIT.EDU's message of Tue, 22 Nov 94 16:05:07 -0500,
<9411222105.AA04307@imbrium.MIT.EDU>
The problem is indeed that the registration server doesn't check the
proposed username against potential conflicts against the filesystem and
list names if the user is being merely enrolled (for a techmail account)
instead of being registered. Changing it won't be trivial (we'll have
to add a new moira query, and change the registration server to use the
new moira query) but it can be done.
Until we can get it fixed, the workaround is to ask the user what
username he/she wants, and check it manually before he/she enrolls using
that name. It's a pain, I know....
Diane, when you have time to look at this, let me know, and I'll point
you in the right direction of what needs to get fixed. It's the
SET_IDENTITY function in the registration server....
- Ted
