Mediawiki with ldap auth using usernames with underscores10.04.18

This is currently unsupported in the extension. MediaWiki replaces underscores with spaces in usernames, and the extension therefore, gets the username with the underscores replaced.

Here is a user submitted hack for getting this to work:

I added a line at the beginning of the function "getSearchString":

$username = str_replace(' ','_',$username);

This replaces the space with an underscore when it creates the user username that is sent to the LDAP server. As far as MediaWiki is concerned it will still use the space in the name.
--JoeD July 7th 2007

One more change, if one is restricting access to a specific group in LDAP, the group lookups fail with the underscore again being removed from the username.

For the latest (2010-11-23) LdapAuthentication.php, a modified "authenticate" function will fix the group lookups. Look for this in "authenticate":

$this->printDebug( "Entering authenticate", NONSENSITIVE );

And add the following directly after:

$username = str_replace(' ','_',$username);

For older (2009-02) LdapAuthentication.php, look for this in the "getGroups" function:

if ( $value != "*" )
                        $value = $this->getLdapEscapedString( $value );

And add the following directly after:

$value = str_replace(' ','_',$value);

You might also have to do the same str_replace in the function "authenticate".--80.179.206.193 16:47, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
    you can edit LdapAuthentication.php page line 1014 like this

$userdn = str_replace( "USER-NAME", '_'.$username, $tmpuserdn );

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication/FAQ#Authentication_fails_for_usernames_with_underscores;_how_do_I_fix_this?

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Mediawiki with ldap auth using usernames with underscores10.04.18

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