SID-01166: LDAP Username display

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.2	Perl version:	perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 1)
Category:	LdapContrib	Server OS:	8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0	Last update:	15 years ago

Hi, I am using LDAP authentication in my TWIKi. It is working fine. The thing I want to do it now is to display names of the users which are fetched from the LDAP. Whenever a user create a new web or post on topic I want their names to display and not their usernames.

What is the way to doing it? Following are the variables I am using in my LDAPContrib plugin:

{Ldap}{LoginFilter} = objectClass=person

{Ldap}{LoginAttribute} = cn

{Ldap}{MailAttribute} = mail

{Ldap}{WikiNameAttributes} = displayName

{Ldap}{NormalizeWikiNames} = normalization is enabled

{Ldap}{NormalizeLoginNames} = is disabled

{Ldap}{WikiNameAliases} = blank

-- FarzanQureshi - 2011-05-04

• fqureshi@rosminiPLEASENOSPAM.school.nz

Discussion and Answer

As configured, the mapping from login name to WikiWord name is not working. There is an option in LdapContrib to configure that (I have not looked into details).

Personally I prefer to let TWiki handle the mapping. This is possible if you use the TWiki::Users::TWikiUserMapping for the {UserMappingManager} instead of TWiki::Users::LdapUserMapping. With this, you need to ask users to register in TWiki. This can be enforced, look into the RequireRegistrationPlugin.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-05-07

Thanks i will look into it.

-- FarzanQureshi - 2011-05-11

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