Re: Problems with user.py >= v 1.79

> 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).

Maybe simply removing "and not self.auth_username" would help you.

Or rather change it to ... and not (self.auth_username and 
config.httpauth_enabled):

And then put that into your moin_config.py:

httpauth_enabled = 0

> 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?

Well, it is not a bug, it just was not designed to have different http 
auth and wiki auth usernames.

But as this is a quite common scenario, we should extend moin to be able 
to map http_auth names to wiki auth names. I will look into that later 
today.

If it can be done very easy (AND the right way), it will get into next 
release maybe - if not, I will put it onto 1.3 todo.

greetings,

Thomas



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