Looked around, but didn't find this one.

I had a user named Shelley sign up, and she got a "Can't register you because your username contains 'hell'" message.

Why is this?

First, I have 'hell' in brackets {hell} so that 'hello' isn't turned into ****o. Second, that means I can't have usernames like "cassie", either.

Is there a way around this, to fix this, or is it a 'live with' it situation. I have to have banned words, and yes, I know you can get around them.

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That which does not kill me does not kill me.

5.45c - bug confirmed (yeah, I think this is a bug, so could Khârn please move it over there? Thx.)

Relevant code is in ubbmisc.cgi, sub RegSubmit.

Search for:
[CODE]CHECKCENSORLIST: for (@censored) {
if (m/({)(.*)(})/) {
$_ = ("$2");
}
if ($UserName =~ /$_/i) {
$BadWord = "true";
$CensorWord = $_;
last CHECKCENSORLIST;
}[/CODE]Possible fix (change to):
[CODE]CHECKCENSORLIST: for (@censored) {
if (m/({)(.*)(})/) {
$_ = ("$2");
$wordonly=1;
}
if ((($UserName =~ /$_/i) && !$wordonly) | | (($UserName =~ /b$_b/i))) {
$BadWord = "true";
$CensorWord = $_;
last CHECKCENSORLIST;
}[/CODE]Comments from other bug swatters?

(edit: there are two pipes in the message above (| |) - be sure to remove the space between them when copying the code!)

Graeme

[This message has been edited by Graeme (edited 05-12-2000).]

Many thanks for the fast reply. I didn't think of it as a "bug", but a bad feature. Microsoft brainwashing, I guess.

Searched the versions page to see if this "bug" had been fixed in a later version of UBB, but could not find the answer. Does anyone know?

Thanks for your help!

Not sure - doesn't appear to be at first glance.

Surprised no one has bugged us about this in 7 months.

Moving to bugs for investigation.

Graeme