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Title: remote login against UCCS server expects an email address as userid Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hi, I am currently working on a non-Canonical UCCS session broker implementation [1] and I have stumbled over the requirement in unity- greeter that user IDs of remote logins have to be of an e-mail address format. While an e-mail address is indeed required for SSO against Launchad and thus against UCCS.landscape.canonical.com, this requirement is not very generic and a usability blocker in non-Canonical UCCS setups. With the X2Go project's UCCS implementation, users can in theory simply use (e.g.) an LDAP user ID (uid=foo) which works fine on the UCCS implementation side, but this user name »foo« will be rejected apriori by the e-mail format check code in /src/user-list.vala in unity-greeter. Attached is a diff against the current code that shows the position of the referred to code in user-list.vala. The patch is _not_ a proposed solution, just a pointer to where in the code I am talking about (and indeed a dirty work-around that avoids this ungeneric error notification). My question is: are the unity-greeter developers open to a more generic approach? E.g. making the RegExp in the e-mail check configurable in some config file (there is no unity-greeter.conf IMHO(?))? What approach would you prefer/suggest? If there is such an openness, I would love to support the team by providing such a patch? Will the effort be worth the invested time??? Greets, Mike (from upstream X2Go) aka [email protected] [1] http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2gobroker.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/uccsoutput To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1172877/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
