RT login with userid that is numeric

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I was wondering if the login should be allowed to use an id that is entirely
numeric. Does not seem to be any limitation anywhere except in autohandler:
$session{‘CurrentUser’}->Load($user);

Looking at the code for the RT::CurrentUser object, I found LoadByName and I
changed the code to
$session{‘CurrentUser’}->LoadByName($user);
and I am now fine. Should this be the default? When would a user logon using
their actual record id number? Will doing this break anything somewhere
else?

Thanks.
Dave

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RT doesn’t support numeric “names” for object. There are a number of
places in the product where we allow users to do things by name or by
id. Using numeric names breaks that and could lead to unexpected
results.On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:25:37PM -0400, david.falkenburger@rbc.com wrote:

I was wondering if the login should be allowed to use an id that is entirely
numeric. Does not seem to be any limitation anywhere except in autohandler:
$session{‘CurrentUser’}->Load($user);

Looking at the code for the RT::CurrentUser object, I found LoadByName and I
changed the code to
$session{‘CurrentUser’}->LoadByName($user);
and I am now fine. Should this be the default? When would a user logon using
their actual record id number? Will doing this break anything somewhere
else?

Thanks.
Dave

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If that is the case, perhaps you should prevent someone from creating an all
numeric userid. It is not obvious at all why I could not log on using the
numeric id, only after looking through code did I find out. I don’t recall
reading anything anywhere about creating userids that they could not be
numeric either.

Thanks.
DaveFrom: Jesse Vincent [mailto:jesse@bestpractical.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:14 PM
To: Falkenburger, David
Cc: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Subject: Re: [rt-users] RT login with userid that is numeric

RT doesn’t support numeric “names” for object. There are a number of
places in the product where we allow users to do things by name or by
id. Using numeric names breaks that and could lead to unexpected
results.

I was wondering if the login should be allowed to use an id that is
entirely
numeric. Does not seem to be any limitation anywhere except in
autohandler:
$session{‘CurrentUser’}->Load($user);

Looking at the code for the RT::CurrentUser object, I found LoadByName and
I
changed the code to
$session{‘CurrentUser’}->LoadByName($user);
and I am now fine. Should this be the default? When would a user logon
using
their actual record id number? Will doing this break anything somewhere
else?

Thanks.
Dave

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