[Tickets #8091] Re: Perms_UI is storing Auth::listUsers() "Display Name"

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8091
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  Ticket             | 8091
  Updated By         | thomas at gelf.net
  Summary            | Perms_UI is storing Auth::listUsers() "Display Name"
  Queue              | Horde Framework Packages
  Version            | HEAD
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Not A Bug
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              | 1
  Owners             |
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thomas at gelf.net (2009-03-17 10:32) wrote:

Hi Michael,

thank you for your quick response! As written below in the meantime I  
realized that listUsers is not doing what I expected it to do. So I've  
probably been a little bit too fast in posting this ;-) I'm using a  
custom LDAP Auth backend, based on the upcoming Zend_Ldap component  
(the one from "incubator", not the stable one). And: no, I'm not  
supposing it to be "better", I have other reasons for using it ;-)

As fair as I understood now, there is no kind of enumUsers() to be  
found, wouldn't that be a good addition? For compatibility reasons  
Auth.php could provide it's own enumUsers() function, wrapping  
listUsers() into an array with appropriate keys for Auth backends not  
providing their own enumUsers() function.

It's just an idea, it could avoid identity hooks in some cases  
(Whups?) - in my case it helps making permission assignment easier.  
Our AD-users are in the form "uabcd" (u + 4 chars) for historical  
reasons, showing "real" names makes managing permissions a lot easier.

I'll for sure not be offended it you see no sense in this, so please  
feel free to close this ticket. If otherwise you would like me to  
provide additional patches showing how this could look like, please  
let me know.

Regards,
Thomas