Thanks Bob and Lars for making it clear. since its encode and save using
username, the logic can`t work.
More thanks!
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Muhire Andrew
HMIS/Ministry of Health
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do..
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From: Lars Helge Øverland <larshe...@gmail.com>
To: Bob Jolliffe <bobjolli...@gmail.com>
Cc: Muhire Andrew <muhireand...@yahoo.com>; "dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net"
<dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] Editing Usernames
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew
>
> A problem with modifying the username is that the password hash is
> also encoded and saved using the username as part of the hash
> algorithm. So in order to modify the username you would also need to
> reenter the password in order for it to be re-encoded. This might be
> problematic - even superusers don't necessarily know the passwords of
> the users.
>
Yes. I also think it is bad practice to change user names. You can
always fall back to creating a new user...
Lars
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