[Server-devel] Aliasing and backup

[Dave Bauer]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Dave Bauer <dave at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> > Ok I ran the backup and then tried to login to the schoolserver from
> Browse.
> > It prefills in my login name as the aliased user instead of the new
> username
> > and my magic cookie doesn't work anymore.
>
> Correct. Once your 'new' machine has been aliased to the old account,
> you restart Browse and you're in your old account.
>
> > I guess its changing the username when I try to login and it doesn't
> match.
>
> Nothing to do with usernames :-) it's down to the serial number of the
> machine.
>
> > I'll see if I can track this down, I am not sure where it gets the cookie
> > and how aliasing works yet.
>
> The aliasing is fairly "high level".  In the 'login to moodle'
> process, moodle checks whether your SN is aliased to any other
> account. If so, it logs you into that _other_ acct instead.
>

Yes, for some reason it was asking for the password. I had the soas
"nickname" not matching on the old/new registrations. I rergistered with the
same nickname and then followed the procedure exactly and I was logged in
automatically.

Dave


>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
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-- 
Dave Bauer
dave at solutiongrove.com
http://www.solutiongrove.com
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