SID-00888: wikiname is Main.uid

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.0	Perl version:	v5.10.1
Category:	LdapContrib	Server OS:	Ubuntu 10.4, 2.6.32-23-server	Last update:	15 years ago

I'm running Twiki-5.0

If I login, my uid being "dgroomba", I authenticate succesfully. However, my wikiname appears as "Main.dgroomba". I would expect it to appear as "DavidGroomba", instead.

So, If I look at the changes made to the wiki, logged in as myself, I see Main.dgroomba as the author of changes.

However, logging in as another user and listing the changes, I instead see DavidGroomba as the author. However, that user now logged in shows all their changes as Main.uid.

I see in the doc that it reads:

NormalizeLoginNames on:

"However the normalized result will not be forced to be a cammel case WikiName. "

Is there a way to force this? So my wikiname becomes DavidGroomba upon authenticating against ldap?

My pertinent configs listed below:

$TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{LoginFilter} = 'objectClass=posixAccount'; $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{LoginAttribute} = 'uid'; $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{WikiNameAttribute} = 'cn'; $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{NormalizeWikiNames} = 1; $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{NormalizeLoginNames} = 1; $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{WikiNameAliases} = ''; $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{AllowChangePassword} = 0; $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{SecondaryPasswordManager} = 'none'; $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{GroupBase} = 'ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com'; $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{GroupFilter} = 'objectClass=posixGroup'; $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{GroupAttribute} = 'cn'; $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{MemberAttribute} = 'memberUid'; $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{MemberIndirection} = 0; $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{TWikiGroupsBackoff} = 1; $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{NormalizeGroupNames} = 1;

I see this question already exists in support, but was closed prior to resolution. My apologies for asking again.

-- DaveGroomba - 2010-07-07

Discussion and Answer

What {UserMappingManager} do you use? If you use TWiki::Users::TWikiUserMapping you can fix the mapping from your login name to your WikiName in your Main.TWikiUsers topic.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-07-07

Thanks for the hasty reply!

I'm using TWiki::Users::LdapUserMapping -- I thought that was required for the values (U2W, etc.) to be used from the cache.db beiing generated by LdapContrib.

-- DaveGroomba - 2010-07-07

Deeper problems, perhaps...

%LDAPUSERS% returns nothing.

Still trying to get meaningful debug information.

The cache file created by LdapContrib is correct -- with all the groups and users properly in the cache.db.

I turned the mapping back to Ldap, which, with user info, now properly displays my uid, my wikiname (broken) and my email address.

I'm guessing I can trace back from this error message and find whats broken.

hey, you called lookupWikiName with a loginName, referer: https://10.10.10.10/bin/edit/Sandbox/TestTopic0?t=1278627046;nowysiwyg=1

-- DaveGroomba - 2010-07-08

I'm almost there...

Mapping works with TwikiUsers if I manually enter addresses. That's not sustainable.

Instead, I'm trying to make wikinames in the topic via an ldap query...

Al la: %LDAP{host="ldap.example.com" order="uid" base="ou=people,dc=example,dc=com" filter="(cn=*)" format = " * $givenName$sn - $uid - %DATE%}%

My problem is that names appear as <verbatim>$givenNameGroomba</verbatim>

Which, won't work. If I seperate out the $givenName $sn, it works, but the space between them will destroy mappings. Any idea as to how to make this work?

-- DaveGroomba - 2010-07-09

I've resorted to writing a script to pull attributes out of ldap and populating TWikiUsers. Of course, its running out of cron.

Not the ideal solution. The frustrating thing is, a wiki I built in the 4 branch with identical configurations, did work out of the box.

-- DaveGroomba - 2010-07-12

FYI: I just ran into this same problem and fixed it with the follow modification:

--- twiki/lib/TWiki/Users/LdapUserMapping.pm.orig	2010-08-04 11:46:20.000000000 -0400
+++ twiki/lib/TWiki/Users/LdapUserMapping.pm	2010-08-04 11:47:37.000000000 -0400
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@
 
 =pod
 
----++++ getCanonicalUserID ($login) -> cUID
+---++++ login2cUID ($login) -> cUID
 
 Convert a login name to the corresponding canonical user name.
 
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@
 
 =cut
 
-sub getCanonicalUserID {
+sub login2cUID {
   my ($this, $login) = @_;
 
   return $login;

-- TylerTrafford - 2010-08-04

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-- PeterThoeny - 2010-09-13

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