Subj : newuser.js logic issue
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Oct 20 2012 01:14 pm

  Re: newuser.js logic issue
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sat Oct 20 2012 10:41 am

 > Hi DM -
 >
 > While testing my new user script, I think I may have found a logic issue
 > that exists in the stock newuser.js.  In the function chk_qwk_id(), the
 > last check is as follows:
 > if(system.matchuser(str,true)!=user.number || system.trashcan(str))
 >
 > I think the purpose of the "system.matchuser(str,true)!=user.number" is to
 > make sure that the username entered belongs to the current user.  However,
 > if the newuser.js script needs to ask for a valid QWK ID (i.e., because the
 > username/alias entered by the user is not a valid QWK ID), then
 > system.matchuser() will probably return 0 because it's not found.  Since 0
 > is different from user.number, anything that the user enters for a QWK ID
 > upon new user registration will be rejected.

Thanks, should be fixed now.

                                            digital man

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