How to create an alias for users when using Apache Login

Hi,

I'm running foswiki on IIS and I'm using ApacheLogin, so the users are authenticating at the server with their username and password.

There is no login or registration page in Foswiki.

When a user is logged in the username is always DOMAIN\username and used as this for creating or editing topics.

That looks a ltittle weird and it would be nice if one could remove the DOMAIN part of the username. Or change it to an alias or so on.

There was a plugin for twiki a while ago, called LoginNameAliasPlugin, but it's not working anymore.

Thx for any answer,

Fallback

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Try LdapContrib.

-- MichaelDaum - 25 May 2009

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Thx for the tipp, looks promising, especially the "normalize" function.

But my ActivePerl is missing an unicode "map.pm" for the MapUTF8 package. Right now I'm figuring out how I can get this.

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Edit:

I installed all missing packages (map, maputf8, net::ldap, db_file) but it's still not working.

There is only the error "db_file.dll can't load file: permission denied at XsLoader.pm".

I think I have some big problems with the permission settings of the IIS / IUSR and Perl.

-- FallBack - 26 May 2009

I'm going to port LoginNameAliasesPlugin and get you to test it, and i may extend that, or write something new later

Tasks/Item1812

-- SvenDowideit - 08 Jul 2009

If you like to remove IIS stuff added to the remote_user then try an IISLogin LoginManager instead of the ApacheLogin one.

The Implementation should look something like this (not tested)

use strict;
use base 'Foswiki::LoginManager::ApacheLogin';

sub loadSession {
  my $this = shift;

  my $authUser = $this->SUPER::loadSession(@_);

  # remove DOMAIN 
  $authUser =~ s/.*\\(.*?)$/$1/g if defined $authUser;

  return $authUser;
}
1;

Save as lib/Foswiki/LoginManager/IISLogin.pm and activate via configure (fingers x-ed)

-- MichaelDaum - 08 Jul 2009

Thx for your help MichaelDaum and SvenDowideit. The fix is working!

But I couldn't use the IISLogin.pm and your code.

I had to copy the important line into the ApacheLogin.pm. Then it looks like this:

    unless ( ( $ENV{REDIRECT_STATUS} || 0 ) >= 400 ) {
        $authUser = $query->remote_user() if $query;
        Foswiki::LoginManager::_trace( $this,
            "apache getUser says " . ( $authUser || 'undef' ) );
        $authUser =~ s/.*\\(.*?)$/$1/g if defined $authUser;
    }

-- FallBack - 08 Jul 2009