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

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Comment	> 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 > > > >
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