Bug in changing email? Weird 404 in admincp

[indie]

In the admin panel I used to able to assign the same email address to more than one user, even if you couldn't do it in usercp.

Today, when trying to add an already in use email, I got:

"The email address you entered is already in use. If you have forgotten your password, please click here."

The strange part is, why does it mention a password? And when you click the link it goes to a 404 page.

/admincp/login.php?do=lostpw

[indie]

Any idea?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

What version of vB are you using?

This is not a bug, this is a feature change. See also the discussion in bug: admin cant change email if in use

You can however set a blank email address.

[indie]

Current vb.

The strange part is, why does it mention a password? And when you click the link it goes to a 404 page.

/admincp/login.php?do=lostpw

What about this part? It's still doing this.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

The check for a duplicate mail address is in a standard routine, that issue a standard error message when someone try to signup with a mail address that is already in use. The same error message is returned when creating a duplicate mail address from the AdminCP. I agree that the message is confusing.

[indie]

It's confusing, and when you click, it gets a page not found error.

[Steve Machol]

This is most likely due to mod_security. See this thread:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=167121

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I don't think so Steve (in fact i am sure). What happens is that if you change a user in the AdminCP, and you give him a mail address that is already used, the standard error will be thrown that is also used when a new user register with a duplicate mail address. The phrase emailtaken is used for this.

In this phrase there is a link to <a href="login.php?{1}do=lostpw">
Since you are in the admincp-directory, this link don't lead to a valid page.

[Steve Machol]

If you think there's a bug, report it in the Bug Tracker.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

It already is in the Bug Tracker, this issue has been talked about before.

Bug: duplicate emailk / bug?

However it is marked as Duplicate (which it is not). The confusion is probably caused because there was a similar bug when changing a username. Added to the bug.

[Andreas]

I can create users with duplicated email-adresses from ACP, so this phrase should never appear there.

@MarcoH64
Could you reproduce this?

@indie
Which vBulletin version do you use?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

@Andreas
Yes i can reproduce on a fresh install. Will add the steps to the bugreport.