I hope this is the right place to post this. There is a major bug in UBB6.1x. After a member name is deleted from the Control Panel, his/her public name still exists, and as a result nobody can register if this public name matches with the member name, which, by the way, is the default (public name=member name if left blank).

To fix this:

####===========================
in cp_users.cgi
####===========================

####find:

local (%user_change, %user_delete, $key, $j, $user_number, $delete, @updated_mems, @updated_emails, $one, $delete_count, @mod_profile, $perms, $new_perms, $forums);

####replace with:

local (%user_change, %user_delete, $key, $j, $user_number, $delete, @updated_mems, @updated_pnames, @updated_emails, $one, $delete_count, @mod_profile, $perms, $new_perms, $forums);

####after:

my @the_members = &OpenFileAsArray("$vars_config{MembersPath}/memberslist.cgi");

####add:

my @the_pnames = &OpenFileAsArray("$vars_config{MembersPath}/public_names.cgi");

####after:

push (@updated_mems, $one);
}

####add:

# amend publicname
PNAMECHECK: foreach $one (@the_pnames) {
chomp($one);
foreach $key (keys %user_delete) {
if ($one =~ /$key$/) {
next PNAMECHECK;
}
}
push (@updated_pnames, $one);
}

####after:

&WriteFileAsArray("$vars_config{MembersPath}/memberslist.cgi", @updated_mems);

####add:

&WriteFileAsString("$vars_config{MembersPath}/public_names.cgi", @updated_pnames);

####done#####

[ 12-13-2001 06:09 AM: Message edited by: freeTV ]

Nice catch, but I wouldn't call it major, it's pretty minor...

You should also report it to the Bugs forum in Infopop's support forum.

This is not a bug.

This is the designed behavior. Stealing names == BAD.