[rt-users] User email address bug(s)

[Kevin Falcone]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 03:24:23PM +0000, David Chandek-Stark wrote:
> Users were not merged.  Disabling extension resolves issue (although can
> still create new user with leading space in email).  I will try upgrading
> extension.

A leading space on email address even appears to work in 4.0
There isn't anywhere near enough validation of email addresses on
manual user creation.

-kevin


> On 8/30/11 10:47 AM, "Kevin Falcone" <falcone at bestpractical.com> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 02:34:11PM +0000, David Chandek-Stark wrote:
> >> RT 3.8.5
> >> RT::Extension::MergeUsers 0.03
> >> 
> >> I have confirmed a case with this setup as follows:
> >> 
> >> User A - relevant history
> >>   - Tue Dec 07 13:43:34 2010 RT_System - User created
> >>   - Fri Aug 12 13:50:22 2011 RT_System - EmailAddress changed from
> >> 'user at example.com' to ''
> >> 
> >> User B - relevant history
> >>   - Fri Aug 12 13:50:12 2011 privuser - User created
> >>   - Fri Aug 12 13:50:22 2011 privuser - EmailAddress changed from '
> >> user at example.com' to 'user at example.com'
> >
> >Presumably you've merged User A and User B?  Or is this a bug you see
> >with unmerged users?  What happens when you disable the extension?
> >
> >> User B's email not only was allowed to be created with a leading space,
> >> but was then allowed to be changed to a value already in use by User A
> >>--
> >> and set A's email to "0" (presumably
> >> http://issues.bestpractical.com/Ticket/Display.html?id=15024).
> >> 
> >> Are these known bugs with RT 3.8.5 and/or MergeUsers 0.03?  I am
> >>planning
> >> to upgrade RT and MergeUsers, but would like to know what's going on
> >>here.
> >
> >There were a large number of bugfixes in MergeUser 0.04, released last
> >year.
> >
> >There have also been a large number of bugfixes since 3.8.5 was
> >released 2 years ago.
> >
> >I've not seen your specific bug reported.
> >
> >-kevin
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