Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-10-04 Thread Dipankar Patro
Bernie, On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.orgwrote: If you want to ensure that I read a message intended for me, you'd better keep me on cc. I don't read every single post sent to sugar-devel. * Sorry. Will follow it from now on. On Sun, 2010-10-03 at

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-10-03 Thread Bernie Innocenti
If you want to ensure that I read a message intended for me, you'd better keep me on cc. I don't read every single post sent to sugar-devel. On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 00:12 +0530, Dipankar Patro wrote: I am currently facing some problem with XS setup. I downloaded the image and installed it on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-10-03 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 10:22 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: We also have jabber-testing.sugarlabs.org which was intended to be our new collaboration server, but nobody setup jabber on it yet. Dave, would you have time to work on it? Bine showed some interest in working on it, but we won't have

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-10-02 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Bernie Innocenti's message of Sat Oct 02 00:03:35 +0200 2010: In the absense of a real test schoolserver, [...] It would be nice if somebody could prepare a VM image containing an XS installation. We already have one: schoolserver.sugarlabs.org. Unfortunately, the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-10-02 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Dipankar Patro's message of Fri Oct 01 21:00:57 +0200 2010: Thanks Sascha for the patch. The credit belongs to Tim McNamara, not me. :) Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-10-02 Thread Dipankar Patro
Hi all, I am currently facing some problem with XS setup. I downloaded the image and installed it on VMware. But that did not work. So I moved on to the three pointers that Bernie provided. I have removed the use of re and am searching for a filter the input of the gtk Entry widget. I also

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-10-01 Thread Dipankar Patro
Hi, Thanks Sascha for the patch. Bernie, I seem to be not getting the key pointers. I think you are suggesting me to setup a School Server on my machine. Martin, I am following this site for XS installation: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software Am I on correct path? Also, after

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-10-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: I am following this site for XS installation: I thought you already had an XS. You have the right URLs but installing an XS for this will be too much work. As Bernie suggested, just install idmgr on a fedora box. cheers,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-10-01 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 18:48 +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: Excerpts from Bernie Innocenti's message of Thu Sep 30 17:42:17 +0200 2010: In the absense of a real test schoolserver, [...] It would be nice if somebody could prepare a VM image containing an XS installation. We already have one:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-09-30 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On 09/30/10 01:13, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: With reference to bug : http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2152 The diagnosis of the bug is incorrect. We never use the user-selected 'nickname' as a username in the XS. We do

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-09-30 Thread Dipankar Patro
Martin, Thanks for your suggestions. I did searched something on GECOS, and I was directed again to /etc/passwd file which maintains user info in an OS. Could you elaborate the test process a bit please? I didn't get you clearly. The only point I could get is that server registration doesn't

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-09-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Dipankar, the XS will use the serial number provided by Sugar as the 'username'. The nickname is used to set the GECOS information. Background info -- what's the GECOS? It's where you normally wrte your full name. So on my laptop, my username is 'martin', my GECOS is Martin Langhoff. $ grep

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-09-30 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On 09/30/10 17:14, Dipankar Patro wrote: Martin, Thanks for your suggestions. I did searched something on GECOS, and I was directed again to /etc/passwd file which maintains user info in an OS. Could you elaborate the test process a bit please? I didn't get you clearly. The only point I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-09-30 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Bernie Innocenti's message of Thu Sep 30 17:42:17 +0200 2010: In the absense of a real test schoolserver, [...] It would be nice if somebody could prepare a VM image containing an XS installation. Note that the editable field for the collaboration server in the CP does not

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-09-29 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Dipankar Patro's message of Wed Sep 29 19:32:22 +0200 2010: @@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ def set_nick(nick): if not nick: raise ValueError(_(You must enter a name.)) if not isinstance(nick, unicode): +nick = re.sub(r':', '_', nick) nick = unicode(nick,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-09-29 Thread Tim McNamara
On 30 September 2010 06:32, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: Hi, With reference to bug : http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2152 I am trying to replace the ':' character in the username with '_', while the user is entering the Username in About Me. The following has been done by me

Re: [Sugar-devel] Replacing Illegal character ':' in username (SL #2152)

2010-09-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Dipankar Patro dipan...@seeta.in wrote: With reference to bug : http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2152 The diagnosis of the bug is incorrect. We never use the user-selected 'nickname' as a username in the XS. We do provide it as in the GECOS info, and there may be