Really not sure which is the best solution. 1.) Force LDAP not to have spaces - which would break current installs. 2.) Add a special character in the username feature (Like Moodle) which existing users of Mahara will need to know before updating. or 3.) leave (not really broken - more of a data checking/ entry issue?)
LDAP usernames can contain spaces. Putting in a trim feature would then break all existing users on Mahara where their LDAP has been set up to allow spaces. So - allowing spaces in LDAP username looks to be allowed for this very reason. Moodle put in this solution: $CFG->extendedusernamechars = true To allow special characters in usernames (Which old LDAPS out there use). https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=279500 As Mahara allows special characters once you choose LDAP - it already resolves a Moodle issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. Matching subscriptions: Subscription for all Mahara Contributors -- please ask on #mahara-dev or mahara.org forum before editing or unsubscribing it! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1689312 Title: New username isn't checked for spaces when added to LDAP Status in Mahara: Confirmed Bug description: Mahara version: 16.10.3 When adding a new user, if you select an institution/authentication method with LDAP, the usersame is not being checked for leading/trailing spaces, and it isn't trimmed before being added to the database. Users can be created with usernames like " newuser ". If you try to do this with a non LDAP authentication method, it thows an error and will not continue (although the error message does not highlight the username field as the source of the error in this case). I've fixed it locally with trim() around the username value before it's put into the databse. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1689312/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : mahara-contributors@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
