Feature Proposal: Make Sure Wikiname Is WikiWord With OpenLDAP Authentication REMOTE_USER

Motivation

I have a OpenLDAP working fine and the foswiki authentication works fine, but que REMOTE_USER is not a WikiWord, then is not a Valid Topic Name. If the variable WIKINAME is derived from REMOTE_USER, this may be converted to WikiWord.

Description and Documentation

I recently migrated to Foswiki from TWiki and excluded all the user pages. Authentication is done only in OpenLDAP.

Examples

Our LDAP has the following attributes:

dn: uid=jarbas.peixoto,ou=Usuarios,dc=teste
givenName: Jarbas
sn: Peixoto
uid: jarbas.peixoto
mail: jarbas.peixoto@previdencia.gov.br
cn: Jarbas Peixoto Junior
o: DATAPREV

Apache has been configured to authenticate with the uid as follows

• File /etc/foswiki/apache.conf

...
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Informe IDENTIFICADOR e SENHA do OpenLdap (Acesso Restrito para a DATAPREV)"
AuthBasicProvider "ldap" "file"
AuthLDAPURL "ldap://mmldap:389/ou=Usuarios,dc=teste?uid,mail,cn?sub?(|(objectClass=shadowAccount)(o=DATAPREV))"
AuthLDAPRemoteUserAttribute uid
AuthzLdapAuthoritative Off
AuthUserFile /var/lib/foswiki/data/.htpasswd
...

When authentication occurs, the WikiName is the uid is not a WikiWord. Then the automatic creation of User Topic does not work.

Impact

WhatDoesItAffect:

%WHATDOESITAFFECT%

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Implementation

I made a small change to the uid is a WikiWord

• File /var/lib/foswiki/lib/Foswiki/Users.pm

...
        # needs to be WikiName safe
        #BEGIN: uppercase fisrt char (jarbas.junior@gmail.com)
        my @words;
        @words = ( $this->{cUID2WikiName}->{$cUID} =~ /(\w+)(\W?)/g );
        for (my $i = 0; $i < @words; $i++) {
                $words[$i]=ucfirst($words[$i]);
        }
        $this->{cUID2WikiName}->{$cUID} = join("",@words);
        #END: uppercase first char (jarbas.junior@gmail.com)
        $this->{cUID2WikiName}->{$cUID} =~ s/$Foswiki::cfg{NameFilter}//go;
...

Now, when authentication is the User Topic is created normally and I use the permission of local groups.

-- Contributors: JarbasJunior - 09 Sep 2010

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