It appears phpBB doesn't allow natively to have a distinct login and public name.

There are alternatives: using a mod, or using a custom user field and patching a bit (see example 2 in http://wiki.phpbb.com/Function.user_add ).

Did this get solved?

CC: (none) => marja11

Not that I know of.

(In reply to comment #0)
> User name currently shown in Mageia forums is the login (LDAP uid).
> 
> There is another LDAP attribute (cn, for common name) that is better suited to
> show the user name: every user puts the name of her own liking, be it an alias
> or a real name.

And after that more users will change their cn, and we'll have less real names in Bugzilla.

For forums and IRC, I think aliases are fine. However, in Bugzilla I really prefer real names.

@ Frédéric
@ D Morgan

Is it easy to make Bugzilla use givenName + sn from the user account instead of cn?

( for reference: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia.org_user_account )

CC: (none) => LpSolit, dmorganec

Bugzilla displays the user name you defined in your preferences:

 https://bugs.mageia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=account

This has nothing to do with LDAP.

(In reply to comment #5)
> Bugzilla displays the user name you defined in your preferences:
> 
>  https://bugs.mageia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=account
> 
> This has nothing to do with LDAP.

Thanks :)

In that case, I don't object against the forums using cn :D

(In reply to comment #4)
> And after that more users will change their cn, and we'll have less real names
> in Bugzilla.

This is really up to each person to decide; using real names or not is more a matter of culture and context. And that's why, if we have a fixed, unique, syntaxically-strict uid, we need a more liberal display name (here, cn) so people can choose how they are named.

(In reply to comment #5)
> Bugzilla displays the user name you defined in your preferences:
> 
>  https://bugs.mageia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=account
> 
> This has nothing to do with LDAP.

It does, I changed cn to "marja" , while *not* doing anything to my bugzilla preferences, and it changed to "marja" here, too.

I reverted the change ± 10 minutes ago, but maybe you can still see it, I don't think it gets synchronised very fast

sorry, i prefer my IRC nickname (cn) to be used in bugzilla as well as forums and others... don't see the need for it to be my real name... i mean, i can be found on my nickname anyway... not sure my real name will be any help...

CC: (none) => alien

@ AL13N, you're so well known, I don't mind if you use your nick everywhere :)

We hardly had any trolls in Bugzilla so far. I think that the custom to use real names in Bugzilla, somehow keeps people from trolling.

(In reply to comment #10)
> @ AL13N, you're so well known, I don't mind if you use your nick everywhere :)
> 
> We hardly had any trolls in Bugzilla so far. I think that the custom to use
> real names in Bugzilla, somehow keeps people from trolling.

or because we're all too friendly to be trolls...

problem is, i know almost absolutely noone with their real names... even after we met face-to-face..

i mean, i respect your opinion on this, but i think this should be just the nickname...; i mean, if you want to troll, you can just make another account...

and besides, if you do troll, the sysadmins can track you down...

3-monthly ping, two months late

Putting "OK" on the whiteboard (because it is certain this request was assigned correctly) so this bug won't show up in my standard stale bug search anymore

Whiteboard: (none) => OK