Re: PEAR Auth: Duplicate usernames
| From: | Stefan Neufeind | Date: | Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:45:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PEAR Auth: Duplicate usernames | ||
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On 3 Sep 2003 at 20:42, Andy Crain wrote:
> I'm currently working the Auth package into an application and
> discovered that it's possible with addUser() to add multiple users
> with the same username. This seems problematic to me, especially in
> situations using removeUser(). My application currently distinguishes
> users by an additional, unique id field, but this is irrelevant to the
> Auth base class since it operates for the most part on usernamecol and
> passwordcol. I'm wondering how others have handled this. My initial
> thoughts are to override either Auth's or the container's addUser()
> method to incorporate a check ensuring that there's only one record
> with $this->username, but wanted to make sure there wasn't an easier
> way before doing that. Andy
Quick (dirty?) help: Add a "unique"-constraint also on the username-
column :-)
Stefan