Let me be clear - what you're saying is that a unique identifier has been included in version 2.8 to uniquely distinguish a user, regardless of changes in name, but no specific method has yet been included to use it. Is that correct?
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 23:23 -0700, Andrew Jaquith (JIRA) wrote: > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-267?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel > ] > > Andrew Jaquith closed JSPWIKI-267. > ---------------------------------- > > Resolution: Fixed > Fix Version/s: 2.8 > > I added the UID property to user profiles for this purpose in 2.7.0-svn-29. > However, we are not using it strictly speaking for tracking just yet. There > are probably places in the code where we ought to print UserProfile.getUid() > to the log file, but that's a future thing that we'll do as it makes sense. > > In the meantime, this bug is (strictly speaking) fixed. > > > No consistent means for maintaining a user's unique identity > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Key: JSPWIKI-267 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-267 > > Project: JSPWiki > > Issue Type: Bug > > Components: Authentication&Authorization > > Affects Versions: 2.6.2 > > Environment: All > > Reporter: Terry Steichen > > Assignee: Andrew Jaquith > > Fix For: 2.8 > > > > > > Now that we've modified JSPWiki to allow users to change not only their > > Name but also their login name, I don't see any way for JSPWiki > > administrator to keep track of users over time. For many reasons of > > administration, billing, user behavior management, I think there should be > > some way to unambiguously identify a particular user, no matter how often > > they may change their profile. >
