Question

We have some users with a dot in the loginname, e.g. james.bond. When filling the LDAP cache everyting is fine, the correct entries are added.

Strange things happen when TWiki tries to lookupWikiName() (TWiki/Users/LdapUserMapping.pm) from login name. Example log output:

constructed a new LdapContrib object
cacheAge=11105, lastUpdate=1209544138, refresh=0
called getLoginName(james.bond)
called lookupWikiName(bond)
asking SUPER
called getLoginName(james_46bond)
called lookupWikiName(james_46bond)
asking SUPER
called lookupLoginName(james_46bond)
asking SUPER
returning jamesbond

I understand the first clipping, where the code tries to remove a prepended TWiki web identifier. (I tried to block this, but was not successful.)

Then there follows a second try where the dot is encoded as _46. How can I stop this, resp. what can I do to get JamesBond as return value? Could modifying {LoginNameFilterIn} or {Ldap}{NormalizeLoginName} help?

Thanks for your support.

P.S.: MapApacheUserWithDotToWikiUser seems to be a different problem.

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Answer

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Does anybody know, in which module the loginname might be encoded? I could not find it yet.

-- AlexanderStedile - 01 May 2008

LoginNameStylesDifferentEffects seems to be the same problem.

-- AlexanderStedile - 02 May 2008