[rguser]

Originally Posted by ItsDrew

rguser: Did you ever find a good solution to this? The LDAP passes their employee ID as their user logon (required). But I would rather have all their posts show as their LDAP "displayName."

The closest I got was to modify the product-ldap_auth-1.5.1_vb4.xml to set the usertitle to the LDAP displayName so at least their name is below their employee ID.

I'd like to know how you worked around this.

PHP Code:

} else {
      ($debug = $debug ) ? print_log("New user. Creating with info from ldap") : false;
      $newuser->set('email', strtolower($userData[0]['mail'][0]));
      $newuser->set('customtitle', 2);
      $newuser->set('usertitle', ($userData[0]['displayName'][0]));
      $newuser->set('username', $vbulletin->GPC['vb_login_username']);
      $newuser->set('usergroupid', 2);
      $newuser->set_bitfield('options', 'adminemail', true);
      $newuser->set_bitfield('options', 'emailonpm', true);
      $newuser->set_bitfield('options', 'vm_enable', true);
      $newuser->set('pmpopup', 1);
      $newuser->set('password', $passwd);
      $vbulletin->db->query_first_slave("
      UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."user
      SET ldap=true
      WHERE username='". $vbulletin->GPC['vb_login_username'] ."'"); 


Sorry for the very late response. Yes, I solved this similarly to how you have it.

The username is only valid from the login screen. Within the code the username is converted over to the full display name right away and used consistently throughout. New account vs existing account is determined by doing a search for the userData[0]['mail'][0].

In transition, I just wrote a script to update all usernames from user alias to full name.