MoinMoin: FeatureRequests/KeepHomePageNamePattern

Short description

I migrated from Moinmoin 1.3.4 to Moinmoin 1.5.8 and now I am facing a problem regarding to the users' Home Pages. Background: I migrated all the data from 1.3.4 to 1.5.8, and in 1.5.8, I use ldap authentication.

Lets suppose a user called John Doe was registered in my old wiki (1.3.4). His Home Page name was JohnDoe. After the migration to 1.5.8, his Home Page is not mapped to JohnDoe anymore, because it is expected to be called john.doe@smt.us.com, which is his ldap login and email. This is a problem, because users have already created their Home Pages and are not interested in creating it again. Also, they are used to get to other users' Home Pages searching for the pattern FirstnameLastname, so it would be nice if they didn't need to change their searching habits.

Therefore I suggest that a feature that allows users to keep their Home Pages is developed. This would definitely reduce the migration impact on the users and would probably be useful for most Moinmoin users.

Workaround In the meanwhile you could create a new homepage john.doe@smt.us.com and put #redirect JohnDoe on it. Maybe it is possible to automaize this homepage creation by a simple script. But I agree, the workaround is a wokraround and not a real solution..

This has nothing to do with moin 1.3 to 1.5 migration. It is simply because you are not using moin authentication any more, but ldap authentication - and your ldap authentication uses other usernames (the user names stored in your ldap directory) than those your users created with moin auth.

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