Item6135: changes required in TWikiUserMappings.pm required to support registration in case PasswordManager is LdapUser

-- TWiki:Main/SopanShewale - 01 Dec 2008

Outch

-- TWiki:Main.MichaelDaum - 01 Dec 2008

For those wondering why this enhancement is needed:

The current LdapContrib does not support local user registration in TWiki. This is because the LDAP password is declared as read only, so TWiki disables user registration.

It is possible however to register users with these configure settings:

$TWiki::cfg{UserMappingManager} = 'TWiki::Users::TWikiUserMapping';
$TWiki::cfg{PasswordManager} = 'TWiki::Users::LdapUser

and this patch in twiki/lib/TWiki/Users/TWikiUserMapping.pm :

[root@twiki Users]# diff -u TWikiUserMapping.pm.save1 TWikiUserMapping.pm
--- TWikiUserMapping.pm.save1   2008-10-24 21:22:46.000000000 -0400
+++ TWikiUserMapping.pm   2008-11-14 13:49:51.000000000 -0500
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
    #if password manager says sorry, we're read only today
    #'none' is a special case, as it means we're not actually using the password manager for
    # registration.
-    if ($this->{passwords}->readOnly() && ($TWiki::cfg{PasswordManager} ne 'none')) {
+    if ($this->{passwords}->readOnly() && ($TWiki::cfg{PasswordManager} !~ /^(none|TWiki::Users::LdapUser)$/)) {
        $session->writeWarning( 'TWikiUserMapping has TURNED OFF EnableNewUserRegistration, because the password file is read only.' );
        $TWiki::cfg{Register}{EnableNewUserRegistration} = 0;
    }
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
                'New password did not match existing password for this user');
        }
        # User exists, and the password was good.
-    } else {
+    } elsif( $TWiki::cfg{PasswordManager} ne 'TWiki::Users::LdapUser' ) {
        # add a new user

        unless( defined( $password )) {

-- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 01 Dec 2008

Closing After Release 4.2.4

-- SopanShewale - 11 Dec 2008