[xwiki-users] duplicate ldap entries

[Thomas Mortagne]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Brent Broge <Brent.Broge at subzero.com> wrote:
> I just downloaded and installed the latest yesterday.
> (xwiki-enterprise-installer-windows-1.5-milestone-2.exe)
>
> Maybe I have something setup in my LDAP configuration wrong?
>
> I think you can even get the same effect with manually creating the
> accounts in xwiki, however.  For example the default administrative
> account is Admin, but you could also create a user account called admin
> since it seems to care about the username being case sensitive.  So
> maybe it doesn't have anything to do with LDAP.  However, it would be
> cool to have xwiki know that Firstname.lastname is the same as
> firstname.lastname when logging in with ldap authentication to avoid it
> from creating duplicate accounts.

Hmm after checking the code I think that this is different depending
of the database engine, with hsqldb (using in distribution and
installer packages) "uSer" and "user" are different but in MySql it's
the same thing.

Could you add an issue about that in http://jira.xwiki.org ?

>
> Thanks,
> Brent
>
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> From: users-bounces at xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces at xwiki.org] On Behalf
> Of Thomas Mortagne
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:45 AM
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> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] duplicate ldap entries
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> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Brent Broge <Brent.Broge at subzero.com>
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> So I have LDAP authentication working now because of the awesome
>> documentation provided.  I have noticed a small problem however.  When
> a
>> user logs in with their active directory logon information for
> example,
>> it will create the Xwiki user account, firstname.lastname, which is
>> fine.  However if they enter Firstname.lastname the second time they
>> logon (notice the capital letter), it will create another entry which
> is
>> a duplicate because of the capital letter.  It seems as though the
> logon
>> username box is case sensitive, is there a way to prevent this?
>
> This should be already supported by LDAP authenticator I think.
> What database engine do you use ?
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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