Bug#802522: mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth: Ldap auth is broken when used with php5 > 5.6.11
Package: mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth
Version: 3.7
Severity: grave
Tags: newcomer
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
It appears that due to a change in how ldap_connect works in php5-ldap >=
5.6.11 this extension for mediawiki fails to authenticate against ldap servers.
Discussion on the bug and possible solution is on the mediawiki wiki
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sl9i17el9a1g9tv1
For the record, the proposed fix in the discussion of changing rtrim to trim in
the file extensions/LdapAuthentication/LdapAuthentication.php worked for me,
but i cannot be 100% sure it is secure and "the proper thing to do"
This renders this package unusable in stable, testing and unstable, as the sole
purpouse of the package is to provide ldap auth.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth depends on:
ii mediawiki-extensions-base 3.7
ii php5-ldap 5.6.13+dfsg-0+deb8u1
mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth recommends no packages.
mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth suggests no packages.
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