Subj : New user script
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Sep 04 2014 07:59 am

  Re: New user script
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed Sep 03 2014 21:45:35

 >> 1. Set the appropriate fields in the user object which exists in
 >> memory
 >> 2. Create a new user object with all the information provided
 >> by the logged-in user

 DM> Method #1 would definitely be wrong and lead to all kinds of problems,
 DM> if it even worked at all. The 'user' object should have (in hindsight)
 DM> been called 'currentuser' or 'useron' or something more indicative that
 DM> it represents the authenticated/authorized user and no other user
 DM> instance.

 DM> Now, I haven't tried to do exactly what you're doing (bypass all the
 DM> built-in new-user creation logic in Synchronet), so I'm not sure off the
 DM> top of my head that what you want to do is completely doable without
 DM> modifying the C/C++ source code.

 DM>  newuser = system.new_user("user name");
 DM>  user.number = newuser.number;

 DM>  ... at least I think that should work. The normal built-in new user
 DM>  process does all kinds of other stuff too, some of which may not be
 DM>  immediatley obvious, so caveat emptor.

Thanks.  If the built-in new user process does a lot more than can be done in
JavaScript, maybe I'll leave the built-in process in place.

Nightfox

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