[Serusers] re : add subscriber issue in ser-0.10.99

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On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:31:23 +0100, Jan Janak wrote
> On 24-01-2006 07:19, C Y wrote:
> > Can it be assume that without the ser_cred, there is
> > no reliable way of populating the credentials table? 
> > I found that www_authenticate doesn't work in the
> > presence snapshot. It seems that it cannot find the
> > relevant credentials for a particular 'user', even
> > though I have manually entered (what I believe to be)
> > the relevant entries (username, password, ha1, ha1b). 
> > www_authenticate may be failing because I entered the
> > information incorrectly - but there's no way of
> > entering the information reliably without ser_cred, I
> > believe?
> 
>   Yes, there is, you can enter the information "by hand",
>   corresponding hashes (ha1, ha1b) can be calculated
>   using gen_ha1.
> 
>   Credentials table is in fact very similar to subscriber
>   table -- instead of username, domain, pair you have uid
>   column.
> 
>   If www_authenticate could not find the credentials then
>   check whether you use correct realm (the first parameter
>   of www_authenticate).
> 
>     Jan.
>

What does the UID column (replacing username and domain columns) look like? Is
it going to be username at domain??

Is there any particular reason that = searchable tables would be deprecated by
tables that require LIKE pattern matching for referencing? 

If username/domain are removed in favour of UID, how does that affect other
tables which use username/domain (such as AVPs) ? 

It all sounds so mysterious! :)  I'm looking forward to a full rewrite of the
docs so that it will all make sense again.