[Mageia-webteam] [Bug 415] Use common name (cn) instead of login (uid) for user public name

[Marja van Waes]

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415

Marja van Waes <marja11 at xs4all.nl> changed:

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                 CC|                            |LpSolit at netscape.net,
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--- Comment #4 from Marja van Waes <marja11 at xs4all.nl> 2012-01-08 14:32:42 CET ---
(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 )

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