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icon4.gif   elog client can set arbitrary values to locked attributes, posted by David Potterveld on Mon Nov 10 16:56:08 2008 
    icon2.gif   Re: elog client can set arbitrary values to locked attributes, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Nov 17 11:20:28 2008 
       icon2.gif   Re: elog client can set arbitrary values to locked attributes, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Nov 17 11:39:03 2008 
Message ID: 66054     Entry time: Mon Nov 17 11:39:03 2008     In reply to: 66053
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Bug report  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.7.5-2135 
Subject: Re: elog client can set arbitrary values to locked attributes 

Actually I found a way around. The "Subst xxx" is evaluated after you submit an entry, so it also works for the elog tool. So all you need in your config file is:

Subst Author = $long_name

and it will do the job.

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