Last modified: 2013-12-18 15:26:09 UTC
Hi, I'm using the current version of LdapAuthentication in Mediawiki 1.19.9 LTS. The following problem occured when I tried to block an old user (which had been created in Mediawiki before we used the extension): Mediawiki asked me if I really want to block myself. I checked other blocked users and it turned out that instead of the expired users some other, currently active users could not log in. So I went on doing some debugging in the php code and I found out that the problem has its origin in "functions/User.php", more precisely in the function "newFromName": $name = $wgAuth->getCanonicalName( $t->getText() ); So there the LDAP server is asked for the canonical name of the user and it seems that it returns incorrect values in a way that confuses mediawiki extremely. Suddenly a complete different user is used as the "target" of the operation. I change the line mentioned above to: $name = $t->getText(); ...and now it works for me. I think that the plugin should check for invalid values coming as result of "getCanonicalName" from the LDAP server and use the unchecked version "$t->getText();" instead. Kind regards, Patrick Holz
What version of LdapAuth are you using? Master?
Yes, I'm using the Master version