https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56425
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Bug ID: 56425
Summary: Unable to synchronize LDAP groups with spaces
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: minor
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: LdapAuthentication
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Created attachment 13638
--> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=13638&action=edit
Patch for translating Mediawiki groups names from underscores to spaces.
The SimpleSecurity extension allows administrators to create extra security
groups for use on the wiki. For the most part, the LDAP authentication plugin
sucessfully synchronizes LDAP group membership with any such groups created.
However, Mediawiki doesn't handle groups with spaces in their names, and (much
as is the case for usernames) requires you to use underscores instead of
spaces. Consequently, if an LDAP group has a space in the name, it cannot be
synchronized to the corresponding mediawiki group.
The options seem to be either:
1) not having spaces in LDAP user groups (not really an acceptable change for
me)
2) translating wiki group names with underscores into names with spaces
(which would break things if the group names actually do have underscores in
LDAP)
It could be that there's an option I've overlooked, but in order to solve this
problem I patched the authentication module to do #2. My patch is below.
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