Hi Mads, 

I don't have issues with emails and usernames in different namespaces. It is 
not my intention to use the "username" as email address, lets keep them indeed 
separate. It is just problematic that the username in my case also looks like 
an email address (with '@') 

As it happens, our IT-dept has a hard request to use the email to login in 
systems, so I need to use the email as "Login Attribute" for LDAPS (the AD 
attribute is called userPrincipleName but I don't know if that is a standard), 
no problem here. The "Email Attribute" just gets the same data, so for 
Kallithea, the mail address is still a different variable, but probably with 
the same content. 
To complicate things further, this 'userPrincipleName' can be an email-address 
on a different domain, than the standard 'Email Attribute' for a specific user, 
in this case the Email is different than the login. 

The issue arises when I want to change a setting on a user (for example make 
someone admin), then the earlier 'valid' username is not valid anymore. Hence, 
the little hack, just allow a slightly more flexible rule to validate the 
username. 

Cheers, 

Stefaan 




Van: "Mads Kiilerich" <[email protected]> 
Aan: "vanheesbeke stefaan" <[email protected]>, "kallithea-general" 
<[email protected]> 
Verzonden: Dinsdag 21 februari 2023 15:25:10 
Onderwerp: Re: username allowed characters 

Hi 

Thank you. 

But ... 

Kallithea generally tries to keep logins and emails unambiguous and in 
different namespaces. It is arguably a bug if Kallithea allows LDAP to use 
email addresses as usernames. 

The assumption is probably not entirely enforced, but it and the consequences 
show up for example in get_by_username_or_email . 

If allowing @ in usernames, it should perhaps be enforced that it only is 
allowed if it matches the email ... but that seems like a hack that would be 
hard to enforce and not really feasible. 

But it is already generally possible to login with email instead of username. 
Perhaps that doesn't work with LDAP? Can you set attr_login to point at the 
email attribute? Or does that have other bad consequences? Something that could 
be fixed instead? 

/Mads 


On 21/02/2023 12:03, [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] wrote: 



Hello, 

I'm using LDAP to authenticate users to our system. Out IT-dept hammers on the 
fact that we need to use the email-address of users to login. 

The login works ok, but when I want to change the settings for a certain user, 
it complains about a '@' in the user name.A simple patch during docker build 
solved this issue. 

Since email addresses are used regularly for logging in, maybe this can be also 
in the next version of Kallithea. 


Simply said : just adding @ to the regexp for username does the job. 

--- validators.py 2023-02-21 10:25:27.657212999 +0000 
+++ validators_new.py 2023-02-21 10:26:40.560218089 +0000 
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ 
msg = self.message('username_exists', state, username=value) 
raise formencode.Invalid(msg, value, state) 

- if re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z0-9\_]{1}[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_\.]*$', value) is None: 
+ if re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z0-9\_]{1}[a-zA-Z0-9\-\_\.@]*$', value) is None: 
msg = self.message('invalid_username', state) 
raise formencode.Invalid(msg, value, state) 
return _validator 

Cheers, 
Stefaan 


BTW : this is the best package I encountered since bitbucket stopped with Hg. 


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