Try to configure it using AD's WwwHomepage field as the username or another such field. I used an LDAP admin program to create everyones username in the WwwHomepage field without any spaces "." Or other special characters and used that as my username. #-# new LDAP authentication service xwiki.authentication.authclass=com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.LDAP.XWikiLDAPAuthSer viceImpl #-# Turn LDAP authentication on - otherwise only XWiki authentication #-# 0: disable #-# 1: enable xwiki.authentication.ldap=1 #-# LDAP Server (Active Directory, eDirectory, OpenLDAP, etc.) xwiki.authentication.ldap.server=Local.Ip.Address.here xwiki.authentication.ldap.port=389 #-# LDAP login, empty = anonymous access, otherwise specify full dn #-# {0} is replaced with the username, {1} with the password xwiki.authentication.ldap.bind_DN=CN=*account with ldap browsing privledges using CN*,OU=Path,DC=TO,DC=THE,DC=Domain/OU,DC=HEREusingstandardldapformating xwiki.authentication.ldap.bind_pass=*previously mentioned cn's password* #-# Force to check password after LDAP connection #-# 0: disable #-# 1: enable xwiki.authentication.ldap.validate_password=0 #-# base DN for searches xwiki.authentication.ldap.base_DN= DC=TO,DC=THE,DC=Domain,DC=HEREusingstandardldapformating #-# Specifies the LDAP attribute containing the identifier to be used as the XWiki name (default=cn) xwiki.authentication.ldap.UID_attr=wWWHomePage #-# retrieve the following fields from LDAP and store them in the XWiki user object (xwiki-attribute=ldap-attribute) #-# ldap_dn=dn -- dn is set by class, caches dn in XWiki.user object for faster access xwiki.authentication.ldap.fields_mapping=last_name=sn,first_name=givenName,f ullname=wWWHomePage,email=mail,ldap_dn=dn #-# [SINCE 1.3M2, XWikiLDAPAuthServiceImpl] #-# on every login update the mapped attributes from LDAP to XWiki otherwise this happens only once when the XWiki account is created. xwiki.authentication.ldap.update_user=1 #-# [SINCE 1.3M2, XWikiLDAPAuthServiceImpl] #-# if ldap authentication fails for any reason, try XWiki DB authentication with the same credentials xwiki.authentication.ldap.trylocal=1 Philip Wright Reports Analyst ACS: BPS Affiliated Computer Services, Inc Affiliated Computer Services, Inc (ACS) Proprietary and Confidential Information This document (or any part thereof) may not be disseminated outside of ACS in either electronic or physical form without specific authorization of the office of the ACS Chief Information Security Officer. The information included in this document represents no commitment by ACS to any other party. The policies and standards described do not consider any country law or other directive outside of the United States. P Please consider the environment before printing this email -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Eric Johnson Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:52 PM To: 'XWiki Users' Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] authentication LDAP doesn't support "." in login names Have you tried using \. instead of just .? This could be an issue with java trying to find a method or variable rather than treating the . as a literal character. Eric -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of João Paulo Lima Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:46 PM To: users(a)xwiki.org Subject: [xwiki-users] authentication LDAP doesn't support "." in login names Guy, Can anybody help me??? I did integration witch Active Directory. However, xwiki doesn't support character "." in login names. By the way, i found out that there is a version 1.5M2 that solve this problem... Does anybody know where i can download it??? or what must i do to solve this problem????? Thanks a lot!!!!! -- João Paulo de Lima _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Guys, Should the version 1.5rc1 support character dot in login names???