When I tried to use the username I registered in wikitech.wikimedia.org (Ash_Crow), it didn't work and I had to replace the underscore with a space to be able to login on Gerrit.
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AFAIK MediaWiki doesn't support underscores in usernames. It converts them to spaces.
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You can use either in MW, it should be transparent.
Reopening so I remember to look at this.
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I wonder where it would be more interesting to handle underscores.
At LDAP level, with a patch there? In a LDAP middlware acting as proxy to only replace _ by spaces? In each or a selection of apps?
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It shows here https://github.com/gerrit-review/gerrit/blob/49df12cb7da00f9298d8a37e231d55ecc83fa0c5/gerrit-httpd/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/httpd/auth/ldap/LdapLoginServlet.java#L109 it trims the username.
@demon could that be the cause of the problem here?
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No.
And I'm actually not convinced to actually fix this. Nothing else using LDAP in our ecosystem does it.
Just go ahead and abandon that.