Question

You brought up women's testimony in the [aforementioned] lesson as an example.
A few years ago I was learning in a study partnership with the head of the kollel [a Torah scholar, but so extreme it was infuriating]. He was a student of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.
But I also knew the study partner of that kollel head from their yeshiva days, when they studied under Rabbi Shlomo Zalman—also a Torah scholar, but a gentle person…
And in the course of a conversation with the kollel head's old study partner, I found out that one day Rabbi Shlomo Zalman stood up in the yeshiva and declared that when the Messiah comes, the very first thing [yes, the first] he would do would be to permit accepting women's testimony.
I decided to challenge my own study partner [the extreme, zealous kollel head] and asked him whether Rabbi Shlomo Zalman had really said that.
He replied: I was there, and I heard that today—not…
 
Who is right?