202082 - Problem editing user details.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Administration, task)

Description

[Richard Horton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: 

Using Bugzilla 2.17.3

Tried to add new user and clicked wrong button. User name was not a valid email 
address so got error page... good so far.

Later I edited my admin user account preferences to change group membership and 
saved the changes. The system then asked me to log in again, which I did... 
unfortunatly to no avial. Using the second admin account I saw that my primary 
admin account had gained a user id of 'test' - which was the mistake from the 
create new user form.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Richard Horton]

Additional information: 
Think this problem is related to Mozilla's caching of form details as now I've 
stopped storing the form content for my bugzilla installation this problem has 
gone away.

However this does raise the question as to whether it might not be a good idea 
to modify the field names on the form used to edit details so they don't match 
other field names used for other purposes...

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

That won't fix the problem you ran into because we'd have to use different field
names for each user being edited which is impractical.  The form fields are
indeed being used for the same thing.  The best idea is to turn off your form
caching for the administrative pages.