Duplicate accounts

[shanen]

Mahara 1.8, Moodle 2.5

Hi Everyone,
This is really a Mahoodle bug, maybe.

Scenario someone logs into Mahara via LDAP, an account is created if the user is authenticated.
Same user logs into Moodle later on, then SSO's to Mahara - another account is created with a "1" after the student ID.

This only happens for some people, the other important thing to note is that the authentication fallback order is:

LDAP
XMLRPC
Internal

The bug seems to be that Mahara isn't checking if a user has an existing account regardless of which authentication methods was used to create the account.

Thanks for your time.
Shane.

[shanen (shane-nuessler-canberra)]

There are also instances of duplicate accounts from LDAP: eg

NAME u77777771 <email address hidden> LearnOnline UC LDAP
NAME U7777777 <email address hidden> LearnOnline UC LDAP

So maybe you don't need a mahoodle env to test this one.... (???)

[shanen (shane-nuessler-canberra)]

An update on this, Netspot have identified what they think is a fix and we are testing ATM.
Thanks
Shane.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Hi Shane,

Is LDAP set to be the parent authority of MNet? That's the only possiblity that I can think of that a duplicate account would be created.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Or maybe it is due to bug #1364170?