Question

Our user names are in the form "DOMAIN\FirstName LastName". When twiki issues an rcs ci command and puts -w"guest" as an argument the ci command fails. testing from cygwin shell gives the error indicating that ci cannot deal with spaces in usernames

example error from cygwin shell:

$ /usr/bin/ci -x,v -q -l -m"none" -t-none -w"DOMAIN\Adam Straughan" '/twiki/data/Sandbox/AdamStraughanSandbox.txt'

ci: invalid identifier `DOMAIN\Adam'

ci aborted

I don't think it is a permissions issue. I have setup apache to run as a specific user (not system) and have granted it full permissions to apache,cygwin and twiki.

Environment

-- AdamStraughan - 16 Nov 2005

Answer

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One possible solution: install LoginNameAliasesPlugin, make the trivial code change to remove embedded spaces, and configure it to remove the DOMAIN\ prefix.

-- ClaussStrauch - 16 Nov 2005

Thanks for that. I have used the plug-in, and after a minor change it solved a slightly different issue of login => wiki name mapping (which I thought that the twiki users delt with)

However I tried with rcswrap (again) rather than rcslite and it dint' work

-- AdamStraughan - 17 Nov 2005

Have you tried it with DakarRelease?

-- MartinCleaver - 17 Nov 2005

This install is my attempt to get a wiki into the team culture. I need it to be stable so can't go with dakar until it is complete. For now I'll just have to live with using rcs lite, though it'd be nice if I could put together a perforce (our version control) replacement, this would allow spaces. I assume I could do this and change twiki.cfg to use this as long as I kept the interface (however I don't know perl, how hard can it be )

I am also considering adding some code to autocreate local machine users that will be rcs compatible and get users to log on using this instead of their domain logon. This would mean another password to manage so I'm not that keen.

-- AdamStraughan - 17 Nov 2005

This is why I think that Martin has brought up DakarRelease: In Dakar, the wiki name of the users is used as the RCS -w attribute instead of the login name. This requires that all users are registered in TWiki so that the mapping can be done.

I'd guess the best route is to stick to rcslite until either Dakar is finished or a perforce backend is available, whichever happens first

-- HaraldJoerg - 17 Nov 2005

If Dakar can use the Wiki name does that mean that if I were to change the twiki.cfg to

$rcsDir/ci $rcsArg -q -l -m$cmdQuote%COMMENT%$cmdQuote -t-none -w$cmdQuote%  WIKINAME  %$cmdQuote %FILENAME% $endRcsCmd

it'd work?

Does rcs use real users or are the user login's just tags?

-- AdamStraughan - 18 Nov 2005

Wouldn't work, sorry. One can cheat about the users with RCS (that's what the -w operand is for), but the replacement process in the RCS command isn't governed by TWiki variables. %USERNAME% is a hardcoded "variable" in RcsWrap.pm, to be replaced by a parameter passed down the queue. I guess you should leave TWiki.cfg as it is and patch somewhere in the code of Store.pm or RcsWrap.pm to replace $user by $TWiki::wikiName. sub replaceRevision in RcsWrap.pm looks like a place to go, but I can't verify because I'm no longer running Cairo, and Dakar is very different in its RCS handling. Maybe some Cairo TWikizen can prove me wrong?

-- HaraldJoerg - 18 Nov 2005