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#2494 'gecos' field computed badly with accent
Lookin at ldap-useradmin/save_user.cgi, you can see
that the "gecos" field is computed from the 'real' field.
if (&in_schema($schema, "gecos")) {
push(@props, "gecos", $in{'real'});
}
In my country (France), some people names have accents.
But gecos field cannot support accents. So, when
modifying users, the error message is:
Failed to modify user in LDAP database : gecos: value
#0 invalid per syntax
I also tried to put 'gecos' as an extra editable
property in configuration module, but it did not work.
The gecos field is always computated with the real name.
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Possible solution in save_user.cgi
sub AccentInsensitive {
my ($string) = @_;
$string = Encode::decode_utf8($string);
$string =~ tr/ÀÁÂÃÄÅàáâãäå/a/;
$string =~ tr/Çç/c/;
$string =~ tr/ÈÉÊËèéêë/e/;
$string =~ tr/ÌÍÎÏìíîï/i/;
$string =~ tr/Ð/d/;
$string =~ tr/Ññ/n/;
$string =~ tr/ÒÓÔÕÖØðòóôõöø/o/;
$string =~ tr/ÙÚÛÜùúûü/u/;
$string =~ tr/Ýýÿ/y/;
$string =~ tr/ß/b/;
$string =~ s/æÆ/ae/go;
return Encode::encode_utf8($string);
}
sub name_fields
{
if ($config{'given'}) {
push(@props, "gn", $firstname)
if ($firstname && &in_schema($schema,
"givenName"));
push(@props, "sn", $lastname)
if ($lastname && &in_schema($schema, "sn"));
if ($firstname || $lastname) {
push(@classes, $config{'given_class'});
}
}
if (&in_schema($schema, "gecos")) {
push(@props, "gecos", &AccentInsensitive($in{'real'}));
}
}
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I can't see how this problem can be solved in Webmin - it
really looks like an LDAP server bug. I would advise
updating your schema files to allow accents in the gecos
field, or if that is not possible removing it from the
schema completely.
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This is definitely not an LDAP server bug.
The 'gecos' field is defined as an IA5 string (US-ASCII).
Therefore it does not admit any latin accent...
As this Webmin module compute the 'gecos' field from the
'real' field, which admits accent, we obtain the error
message. The solution would be to transform accent to their
equivalent as in US-ASCII as shown in AccentInsensitive
function (It works well for me). Or to stop computing gecos
from real...
I understand that English-speaking country do not encounter
this problem, but for other countries this is a critical
bug. It is impossible to create/modify a ldap account via
Webmin.
Best regards,
Fabrice Robin
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OK, I see what you mean now ..
I should be able to update Webmin to convert accented
characters to non-accented. Do you know of any Perl funtion
or module to do this though?
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I don't know any Perl function or module to do this.
That is why I created my own function AccentInsensitive.
But I am not a Perl expert ;-)
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Ok, I missed your function in the bug report at first .. I
will include this in the next Webmin release, which should
solve the problem.