-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carey Matthew Black wrote: > All, > > Am I the only one who is _very_ disappointed to read the following? > > Ref: Release-Notes-700-Web.pdf page: 18 > " > Unique user logins > In AR System 6.3, it was possible to have multiple users with the > same user name but different passwords log in at the same time. AR > System 7.0 does not allow multiple users with the same user name if > you use the User form for authentication. If, however, you use > external authentication, multiple users with the same user name can > log in only if they belong to the same groups. (In the cache, only one > session is created, and this session will be used for both users.) If > you are upgrading to AR System 7.0 from a 6.3 system where you allow > multiple users with the same user name but different passwords, the AR > System upgrade scripts will fail and will generate a message > suggesting that you correct the multiple user name problem. > " > > It sounds like they removed a very advanced (and very old) feature of > ARS in the name of performance and at the cost of backwards > compatibility. That is not a pattern that I would imagine most > customers would value. > I'm curious how you were using this feature. This is something I have never leveraged. When I needed an account that was shared (e.g., integrations), I used an admin account, where all programs used the same password.
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