[xwiki-users] LDAP auth and username case

Hi all, I have a question about case sensitivity of usernames in the context of an LDAP authentication. As far as I understand, LDAP directories are mostly case insensitive (reference: 'A note about case sensitivity in LDAP' [1]). XWiki usernames, however, are case sensitive. In order to avoid any ambiguity with usernames, we are considering to use only lowercase usernames. Is there a way to force XWiki to use the username as it is stored in the LDAP directory, case-wise? The need seems to be marked as fixed at [2]. However, when doing tests with OpenLDAP, I notice the following (with XWiki 6.4.2): - Context: a user with uid 'aliddell' is present in the LDAP directory. - Logging in with username 'ALIDDELL' succeeds and a user 'XWiki.ALIDDELL' gets created (while we'd like to get 'XWiki.aliddell'). - Subsequent logins with other cases get bound to the existing login 'XWiki.ALIDDELL'. I understand that we may rewrite the username in JavaScript but that would work only with form-based auth. Should we write our own LDAPAuthService to meet the need ? Or would you have other suggestions? [1] http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ch2/ [2] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-238 Thanks a lot, Kind regards, Stéphane -- Stéphane Laurière CTO OW2 www.ow2.org +33 645 816 202 @slauriere