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Dana P Williams - More Hardcopy Problems

Dana P Williams - More Hardcopy Problems

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inactiveTopicMore Hardcopy Problems topic started 9/24/2004; 10:33:14 AM
last post 9/24/2004; 11:13:42 AM
userDana P Williams - More Hardcopy Problems  blueArrow
9/24/2004; 10:33:14 AM (reads: 756, responses: 1)
If a student with login "King" logs in as "king", w/o the captial "K", the system lets him in. Put if the student tries to generate hard copy, they get the message "You can't generate hardcopy for other users". The student can get hardcopy normally if they log in as "King".

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userMichael Gage - Re: More Hardcopy Problems  blueArrow
9/24/2004; 11:13:42 AM (reads: 981, responses: 0)
We know about this bug (which apparently only occurs when using mysql). The next update will make hardcopy operate the same as everything else (i.e. King will be allowed). hardcopy was checking for users differently from all other modules. The long term plan is to fix it so that logins are case sensitive and king and King will be different, hopefully that is what most people want.

Technically the problem is that keys in mySQL are always checked (by mySQL) in a case insensitive way, so that checking for the existence of a student King or kIng or kinG will match a key named king and be satisfied. We'll need to change the checking mechanism.

-- Mike

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