[Koha-devel] Bug 8641

[Liz Rea]

That message shows up on the home page every time you log in with user 
0. It's in a giant yellow box.

See: http://imgur.com/kG8xunF

Hope that helps,

Liz Rea

On 24/01/13 11:26, Paul wrote:
> At 10:48 AM 1/24/2013 +1300, Robin Sheat wrote:
>> Archives and Collections Society schreef op wo 23-01-2013 om 10:57
>> [-0500]:
>> > As far as I can see (using getent passwd | cut -d : -f 1 | xargs
>> > groups)
>> It's worth noting that there is absolutely, completely no relationship
>> between UNIX system users and Koha or MySQL users. Never the twain shall
>> meet.
>> When you log in with your database username and database password (i.e.,
>> the same thing you would use if you typed
>> "mysql -u username -ppassword koha") then you are user 0. However, as
>> user 0 doesn't have an entry in the borrowers database, anything that
>> tries to look you up, or otherwise reference your record will get
>> terribly confused.
>> For our client Koha systems, I only ever user that user for doing quick
>> and dirty things, changing some admin settings, looking at the state of
>> something, creating initial borrowers. Anything more complex than that
>> is likely to have conniptions.
>
> Many thanks Robin -- that was what I had assumed, but confirmation is 
> always good to have. In fact, I have only ever used it to create the 
> very first "superlibrarian" [1] on a new install.
>
> May I make a suggestion regarding the sign-off to this bug? (It seemed 
> a bit complex vis-a-vis translations, so I don't want to upset any 
> apple carts.) It might be a good idea to add a para to the INSTALL 
> files (general, Debian, Ubuntu, whatever) to alert people before they 
> get the opportunity to click on "About Koha." I've had a quick look at 
> various 3.8 and 3.10 .tar files and don't find anything.
>
> [1] Re: 'borrower' permissions. What's the difference between flag "1" 
> (plain superlibrarian) and flag '261887' (super librarian with all 
> boxes checked)?  Is it necessary to check the boxes?
>
> Again tnx and br,
> Paul
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