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Tried logging in with a non-existing user name? (Score: 2, Funny)

by afineusername@pipedot.org on 2014-03-07 10:53 (#AN)

record not found - table [user] id [luser="ausername"]

"luser". Classy, huh. Slow. Clap.

Re: Tried logging in with a non-existing user name? (Score: 5, Interesting)

by spallshurgenson@pipedot.org on 2014-03-07 14:46 (#AQ)

'luser' is a word with quite a long pedigree. It dates back to the '70s at MIT and has since been adopted by IT professionals and hobbyists, especially by those who have to deal with users on a regular basis. Although it's tongue-in-cheek meaning has not changed, it has become less a comment on the users themselves and more of a shibboleth used within the community.

Myself, I tend to use 'luser' as referring to the record itself, as opposed to the 'user', who is the actual person.

Re: Tried logging in with a non-existing user name? (Score: 3, Informative)

by zenbi@pipedot.org on 2014-03-07 18:57 (#AV)

Myself, I tend to use 'luser' as referring to the record itself, as opposed to the 'user', who is the actual person.
Exactly. The "user" field in the database is case sensitive so that people can have names like "SpallsHurgenson", but I didn't want another user to register "spallshurgenson" either. Nor did I want to constantly strtolower() the username when doing comparisons. Thus, I have two fields: "user" that is case sensitive and used for display, and "luser" that is the lower case equivalent and used for comparisons.

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2014-03-11 18:20 Informative +1 kerrany@pipedot.org
2014-03-12 05:48 Interesting +1 ploling@pipedot.org

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