[Koha-devel] Bug 8641

[Liz Rea]

There is also a bug, 9439, that is pending sign off that would rectify 
the exact situation you are describing. Essentially, there is no 
difference between them, and the patch for 9439 just enforces that.

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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