Re: [389-users] Error with usernames containing periods

On 07/08/2014 10:03 AM, Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Rich Megginson <rmeggins@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 07/08/2014 03:26 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Rich Megginson <rmeggins@redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 07/07/2014 06:09 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm working on a PoC migration of an OpenLDAP infrastructure to 389.
>>>>> Our existing directory has periods in all of the usernames, e.g.
>>>>> dave.page. However, this seems to cause problems with the org chart
>>>>> interface, which complains with:
>>>>>
>>>>> "." is not allowed in search filters.
>>>>>
>>>>> when clicking on the org chart icon for a user. The same issue is seen
>>>>> when using directory express and clicking the org chart link.
>>>>>
>>>>> How can I resolve this, without changing hundreds of usernames (which
>>>>> is not an option)?
>>>> Please file a ticket.
>>> Done: https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/47842
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>>> Are you a perl hacker, by any chance?
>>> Not really (more of a C/C++ guy). I may be able to figure it out
>>> though, if you can point me in the right direction.
>>>
>> Hmm - looking at the code - looks like you could edit orgchart.conf and add
>> "." to the allowed-filter-chars
>>
>> https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/389/dsgw.git/tree/orgbin/org.in#n992
>>
>> https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/389/dsgw.git/tree/orgbin/org.in#n1250
> That seems to break it entirely - no error message, no results, and
> nothing in the logs to give any clues :-(
>
Ok. Then this is going to take someone debugging the perl code to
figure out . . .

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