I'll be happy to test to see whether a migration of just the remoteusername field will cover. However, since Moodle will only search on one AD field with LDAP, and since our state is standardizing on email (for cloud resourse reasons), the result will be a very unsatisfying truncation of email addresses being stored in Mahara's username field as new users SSO in. My vote is still to make it all uniform, standardizing on username field size wherever it appears.
But I won't be writing the code or attending to all the other issues, so it's easy for me to say... ;-) Thanks, y'all (as they say in these parts), for picking up the ball on this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Committers, which is subscribed to Mahara. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/548165 Title: Increase length of username column to 255 to support shibboleth/SSO userIDs Status in Mahara ePortfolio: Confirmed Bug description: get_new_username in lib/user.php truncates username to 30 characters by default. In some cases this is too short. As an example I have modified the SimpleSAMLPhP authenticator to use the Internet2 Shibboleth SAML service provider (SP). In cases where the eduPersonPrincipleName attribute (which look like [email protected]) is not provider to the SP, the SP can either use the SAML1 eduPersonTargetedID attribute (which looks like [email protected]) or the serialized SAML2 NameID (which looks like "!IdP-entityID!SP-entityID!lq7q48crsqzyqehetxahzcgi/bc=" and the entityIDs have the form of a URL) as usernames. 30 characters is far to small to handle this and more over the varchar(100) username field in the various tables like 'usr' will impact on this issue aswell. My guess is that you should be looking atleast 256 or 512 characters for this. PS. This is an issue for both SSP and Shibboleth. This bug was imported from eduforge.org, see: https://eduforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3424&group_id=176&atid=739 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-core Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-core More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
