[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Support "." in login names in LDAP authentication

[Thomas Mortagne]

Hi all,

Currently LDAP authentication does not support "." in login names.

The problem is not really at LDAP authenticator level but more
generally in XWiki which does not support "." in documents name.

As it will be too difficult to correct soon on XWiki and it's really
needed feature, I propose to add a workaround in LDAP : replace "."
with something else like "_" or nothing when creating/updating the
XWiki user from LDAP. The only problem here is that login and user
name will be different but it's not big issue in my point of view.

See http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2264

WDYT ?

If ok, another question is : only 1.4/trunk or also 1.3 branch ?

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Thomas Mortagne