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How much flexibility do you allow users creating uids?

After having to register at one more website, and hitting stupid restrictions on the Username (no spaces or special characters), I'm wondering why we still have programmers restricting things like that. Is there a concensus on the methodology of allowable usernames? ...

Python fails to execute firefox webbrowser from a root executed script with privileges drop

I can't run firefox from a sudoed python script that drops privileges to normal user. If i write $ sudo python >>> import os >>> import pwd, grp >>> uid = pwd.getpwnam('norby')[2] >>> gid = grp.getgrnam('norby')[2] >>> os.setegid(gid) >>> os.seteuid(uid) >>> import webbrowser >>> webbrowser.get('firefox').open('www.google.it') True >>>...

facebook connect uid mysql storage problem

I'm doing a facebook connect integration. I use the facebook php library to get the uid,like $facebook = new Facebook($api_key, $secret); $fb_user = $facebook->require_login(); $fbuser is a 16-character long bigint, such as 1000002949493949 However, when I insert this value into mysql it only inserts 2949493949 So later when I try to...

Odd, nondescript error [an error occurred while processing this directive]

I have been migrating a client's website from a Bluehost account to my own cPanel/WHM setup. I used the cPanel 'Backup Wizard' to create the export .tar (composed of home directory and mysql files, amoung some other things...) I suppose it's possible this is the problem, except that I didn't use the wizard to import the information, I ju...

How to search emails that are not listed in a given MessageUIds using IMAP?

I'm using http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/imap/rdoc/index.html to access gmail. I can search for emails with a particular label, but I'm trying to avoid to search an email twice. So in order to do that, I thought that I could store the message_id of each email so that in the next searches I would reefer to that message_id to avoi...

Save email as draft in php

Hello, The past few days I've been trying to find out how I can save emails as drafts using php. I've created an emailaddress that uses imap (and resides on the same server). What I would like to do is to use php to create an email and store it in the drafts folder. These emails would then be recognized by the email client (ms office o...

How to determine the UID of a message in IMAP

I'm working in a mail client project using C#. I'm using both the POP and IMAP protocol to communicate with the server. The problem is than I can not figure out why when I want to get the UID for a message the result from the POP server and the IMAP server are different. POP C: UIDL 1 S: +OK 1 UID2-1269789826 and IMAP C: $ FETCH 1 (...

Get Blackberry UID or device specific info

Is there any way to get the UID of a Blackberry device using Javascript requests? ...

How to import contacts into Outlook from a CSV file (including UID)

I have an external database which stores my reference contact addresses (first name, last name, e-mail, phone number, etc.) and I would like to periodically import the data into Outlook (standalone, not via Exchange server). There are numerous ways to import data (e.g. through CSV or vCard files), but before trying to implement this, I ...