Launchpad user with a plus (+) in the Name field cannot login to MoinMoin wiki using OpenID

[Andrew Glen-Young]

If a Launchpad user has a plus (+) character in their 'Name' field then the user is prevented from logging into an OpenID enabled MoinMoin wiki.

The 'Name' field is used as the wiki name for the OpenID enabled MoinMoin wikis. Unfortunately MoinMoin cannot allow the plus character in the wiki name as this is a reserved character which is used for ACLs.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Ensure you can login to an OpenID enabled wiki (https://help.ubuntu.com/community).
2. Login to Launchpad (or create a new user) and change your 'Name' field to include a plus (+) character.
3. Try login to the same OpenID enabled wiki.
4. See the (ungraceful) failure message.

[Mary Gardiner (puzzlement)]

Bug 267647 is similar but wider in scope: anyone using OpenID and having that as their user name is affected.

[Francis J. Lacoste (flacoste)]

That's better handled on the Moin side by using mangling.

[p (p1)]

any progress on getting this fixed?
i still cannot login to help.ubuntu.com.

[Stuart Metcalfe (stuartmetcalfe)]

Mangling the "+" in Moin is the solution, but we don't have plans to work on Moin's OpenID until after the Ubuntu 10.10 release at least. Are you able to work around it by changing your username in Launchpad?

[p (p1)]

finally it worked changing the name.
btw: this is the description of the name field at my https://launchpad.net/~USER/+edit site: "A short unique name, beginning with a lower-case letter or number, and containing only letters, numbers, dots, hyphens, or plus signs."
that should be rewritten until the bug is fixed.

for cross reference: http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/username%20containing%20%27%2B%27%20symbol