Aaron,

The user.unityid field should not contain the affailiation.  However, it
can contain an @ in it.  We did this because of a custom account system
here at NCSU that uses email addresses in the unityid field.  However,
those addresses all have the same affiliation associated with them.
This results in a unityid@affiliation like

[email protected]@ITECS

which is a little strange, but it worked out okay.  The one issue it did
cause was requiring that only the part before the first @ be used as the
user account in reserved systems.

As an aside, the reason the field is named 'unityid' instead of
something like 'userid' is because that's what we call them here at
NCSU.  By the time we moved to ASF, we didn't feel like it was worth all
the code changes to rename it when no end users would see it.

I hope that clarifies things.

Josh

On 08/14/12 15:13, Aaron Coburn wrote:
> Hi, Guys, Is the user.unityid value supposed to have an affiliation
> value attached to it? That is, should it be in this format:
> user@affiliation? None of the users in our system have an affiliation
> value in that field, yet in utils.php:updateRequest(), it seems that
> the call to getUserlistID($user['unityid']) expects it in the
> user@affiliation format.
> 
> It causes extension requests to fail. It is easy to fix, but I want
> to make sure I understand this properly.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 
> -- Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic
> Technology Services, Amherst College 
> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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