[Xerte] Re: LDAP givenName & sn

[Pat Lockley]

Hello,

>From recollection the code does two LDAP checks. Maybe the second one fails?

I would be surprised givenname isn't in the database in sitedetails or ldap?

Pat

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Davies, Dale
<Dale.Davies at liv-coll.ac.uk>wrote:

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> I’ve set Xerte up on a Linux web server, everything works perfectly apart
> from one aspect.  When a user logs in their name is not pulled into the
> Xerte users database via LDAP.  ****
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> I have checked through the code and found login_library.php to contain
> “givenname”, so I changed this to “givenName”.  However this still does not
> pull in the name.  We definitely have values stores in those attributes
> within the Active Directory.****
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> Am I missing something?  I can’t find any solution unfortunately, I realise
> this isn’t a huge problem as Xerte still works regardless, but users are
> unable to search for each other and share/hand over projects.****
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