Problems with user.py >= v 1.79

Hi everyone

As of version 1.79 of user.py line 143 was changed from
   if not self.id:
to
   if not self.id and not self.auth_username:

The log entry of the commiter describes the intended improvement:
"auth_username must take precedence over cookie"

I suspect this change to be responsible for a problem that shows up in
our MoinMoin installation in our Intranet. Every user within that
Intranet is authenticated by HTTP AUTH.

If ACLs are turned off, a user *has to* choose his auth_username as Name
on the UserPreferences page as well. Otherwise he won't be able to
change his settings afterwards ("Username already exists!", if
submitting via "save" button).

This is not very nice, as the UserPreferences page suggest to use a
WikiName as username. But it can be circumvented.

But if ACLs are turned on, a user can't choose a Name such as "thomi",
since the ACL systems requires a WikiName now.

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance
Thomas Werschlein


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