https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40024
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Bug #: 40024
Summary: $wgAuth->getCanonicalName() is evil and should die in
a fire
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: User login
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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$wgAuth->getCanonicalName() is meant to allow authentication plugins to munge a
user name from the login name to a mediawiki name. Unfortunately,
getCanonicalName is also used for a million other things, like page titles, and
checking the validity of user names.
Overloading this function for munging names in auth plugins and for checking
validity of usernames and page titles causes an incredible number of bugs. We
really need some better method of handling this.
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