Fair warning: this entry will make little or no sense to you unless you work in UCS and do PL/SQL programming.

I’ve made a change to wou_util.wou_ldap.vnum_to_uid, specifically to the way it deals with V-numbers that are attached to multiple user accounts. Before, if you passed a usertype as the optional second parameter, and it couldn’t find a uid matching that type, it would still return a uid if it found one of another type that had the given V-number.

As of today, passing the second parameter will make the function behave more strictly; if a user account of the given type cannot be found, the function will return zero even if there is a user account or another type that has the given V-number.

In other words, passing a usertype to vnum_to_uid() means you want a matching uid only if it also matches the given usertype.

If you only pass a single parameter, the function will behave exactly as before; if multiple accounts are found, it will return the last one found. This is usually the most recently created account, but don’t rely on that always being true.

Oh, and one other note: there is a new usertype, “Alumnus”. All LDAP accounts of people who have graduated from WOU have this type. It is possible for someone to have both Student and Alumnus, for example if they graduated and then returned for a Masters program.