[Koha-bugs] [Bug 11590] Librarian able to checkout item without setting branch first

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Mon Feb 24 17:39:05 CET 2014


http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11590

--- Comment #4 from Kyle M Hall <kyle at bywatersolutions.com> ---
At this point I wonder why we still allow logins as the DB user. Wouldn't it be
better to add a cli script to generate a first superlibrarian to log in with,
and do away with db user logins altogether?

(In reply to Chris Cormack from comment #3)
> (In reply to Robin Sheat from comment #2)
> > The giant warning saying that you shouldn't do that indicates that you
> > shouldn't do that. 
> > 
> > A better fix is is to make that warning a bit more compulsory, e.g. cutting
> > off access to functions that aren't related to configuration/management if
> > you're the database user.
> > 
> > Maybe also make the warning bigger and having blinking marqueed text so it
> > doesn't get ignored.
> 
> Yep, what Robin is saying is that the real problem here is that you are
> logged in not as a real user but the db user.
> 
> I agree that we should definitely not let the db user ever circulate. That
> would be a much better solution. Also, lots of other features should be
> blocked too.

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