Question

Hi, i tried to upgrade our 4.1.2 installation to 4.2.1. Authentication and group mapping works fine with LdapContrib 2.99.5, but when i enable the ldap passwordmanager the registration link diappears and the registration form becomes uneditable.

In warn...txt following line appears: TWikiUserMapping has TURNED OFF EnableNewUserRegistration, because the password file is read only.

$TWiki::cfg{Htpasswd}{FileName} is set to '/var/www/data/.htpasswd';

ls -lah /var/www/data/.htpasswd
-rw-rw---- 1 www-data www-data 2,8K 1. Dez 08:57 /var/www/data/.htpasswd

CGI User is www-data

$TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{SecondaryPasswordManager} is set to 'TWiki::Users::HtPasswdUser';

I dont't use mod_perl or suexec

The following code disables the registration i think: (lib/TWiki/Users/TWikiUserMapping.pm)

#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'))

{ $session->writeWarning( 'TWikiUserMapping has TURNED OFF EnableNewUserRegistration, because the password file is read only.' );

$TWiki::cfg{Register}{EnableNewUserRegistration} = 0; }

I also tried to enable $TWiki::cfg{Ldap}{AllowChangePassword} but no success.

First of all: is is possible to use the new user registration and LdapContrib in 4.2.1?

Regards

Environment

-- TimmWunderlich - 01 Dec 2008

Answer

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I think this is a design limitation of LdapContrib, you can't register users locally. I prefer to register users locally in TWiki even with LDAP authentication. The idea is to have a wiki homepage where people can find each other and give feedback to each other the wiki way.

You can do that with a small patch as described in TWikibug:Item6135.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Dec 2008

Hi,

thanks for your fast answer.

i applied the patch and can register users now. but the change/reset password sites don't work, cause the context passwords_modifyable seems to be disabled.

and the ldap usermapping don't work, the ldap users don't get mapped to their cn attribute.

regards

-- TimmWunderlich - 01 Dec 2008

Sorry, again with correct status... Hi,

thanks for your fast answer.

i applied the patch and can register users now. but the change/reset password sites don't work, cause the context passwords_modifyable seems to be disabled.

and the ldap usermapping don't work, the ldap users don't get mapped to their cn attribute.

regards

-- TimmWunderlich - 01 Dec 2008

if i register an new user the username and email are written to the .htpasswd file, but not the password

-- TimmWunderlich - 01 Dec 2008

Closing very old support question.

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-06-06