Duplicate LDAP users

[Daniel Laird]

All,

I am having an issue where I get multiple user accounts created when
people are logging in using LDAP. This is now starting to cause a
headache as nearly everyone at one time or another uses the incorrect
case of their username to login.
The LDAP login seems to work regardless but the local account created
by ReviewBoard is case sensitive.

Can anyone help me to make the reviewboard server make everything
lowercase before trying to login. This would still work with LDAP and
would mean I stop getting multiple user accounts.
Which means the users of my system moan that they have no review
requests - they log out and in with different cases and suddenly they
have review requests.

I hope you can help
Many thanks
Daniel Laird

[Christian Hammond]

Hi Daniel,

I'm CC'ing revie...@googlegroups.com, as people may have hit this there and have some workaround.

So, if I understand this correctly, your LDAP server doesn't care about the case sensitivity, so it happily accepts anything, but Review Board doesn't realize they're all the same and are creating different user accounts.

One thing you may want to try is to open reviewboard/accounts/backends.py, find LDAPBackend.get_or_create_user, and change:

    user = User.objects.get(username=username)

to:

    user = User.objects.get(username__iexact=username)

Then restart your server and see if the problem goes away. You'll of course still have the duplicate accounts that were created, but hopefully you won't be able to create any new duplicates.

Christian

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[Christian Hammond]

What version of Review Board are you using? Thought we fixed this..

Christian

On Apr 1, 2012, at 13:28, geert <glin...@dynamiccontrols.com> wrote:

Hi All,

We've got the same problem. We use Windows AD to authenticate and for it usernames jblog, JBlog and JBLOG are the same, but for reviewboard they are three different users.

Is there a way to convert the username to all lowercase inside reviewboard?


Cheers - Geert

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