Zugg Software :: View topic - [2.18] Different Sessions Force Same Character Name

Adept Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 246

I don't know if this is this is a bug or a feature. I have multiple sessions available when I go to log in, one for each character on the mud I play (foxmud). In each of the sessions, I have a different character login name, but the same fox.pkg file as the defaults. My problem is that since 2.16 or so (definately in 2.18) I've created a couple new characters, and when I change the character name used to log into my mud in the session properties, it change the login name for three of the characters, the new ones. I'm not sure if this is because the info is stored in the fox.pkg file and I'm referencing it with all three or what. I think I created at least one of the new characters by copy and pasing an older character session. Any help would be appreciated. I'm using vista.

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:34 pm

Passwords and character names are stored with the session - check the session properties for the sessions sending the wrong names.

Adept Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 246

What's happening, is when I go into the session properties for my character "Aku" and change the name under the character tab to Aku (which is used for login to the mud), it changes one of my other character's session properties for the name field in the character tab as well, to Aku. That's for my character, Jed. So when I change one, it changes both. It also happens visa versa, when i change the name in Jed's session properties-character tab, it changes it for Aku's session properties as well.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

You are using a shared session file. Search my posts, I've got a sesssion ID tutorial that covers this. You'll have to port your settings from the one to the other though, but with xml export/import that is easy.

Adept Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 246

Thanks for the quick replies. I still havn't figured it out.
I have many sessions set up:

when i change the name in the character tab of Aku:

it also changes the name on the character tab of Jed:

What's the name of the file that I'm sharing that the session information is stored in? Is it the .pkg file? in my case, both are using fox.pkg as the .pkg file in the package files tab.

Ralgith, I looked at your tutorialhttp://forums.zuggsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29015&highlight=session but seems to me the only thing you have different than how I'm doing it is the "ID" field. I changed those for two of the chars I'm having trouble with but it doesn't seem to help. You also mention porting settings from one session to another. I havn't seen a button or menu item in the sessions box to export/import session information. Because of this, it seems to me that you are suggesting that each session should have it's own .pkg file, and that the session login name and password is stored within it, and there can only be one login name. But this doesn't make sense, as I've used many of these same character sessions for a long time and havn't had this problem in the past.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5187

It is actually stored in the sessions.db and there is something in the sessionkeys.db. I will take a look at 2 at playing around with the files on my system to see if I can generate any problems.

Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:21 pm

Sessionkeys.db stores your passwords (since CMUD can now log into SSH servers, you don't really want those passwords stored in plain text), sessions.db stores everything else about your session.

I'm going to go ahead and cut the session dialogues out of those screenshots and re-upload them. Your reso is quite big and, given that you have the second monitor on there as well, it's making my browser cry :(