The solution was to upgrade. There was a fix introduced in a recent version. :)
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Rik Theys <rik.th...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Brian, > > I'm having the exact same problem as you have/had. Did you find a solution > for this in the end? > > Regards, > > Rik > > On Friday, November 6, 2015 at 4:08:18 PM UTC+1, Brian O'Donnell wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have GitLab 8.x configured for shibboleth authentication, and it works >> great. The only issue is that I would like to control the auto-created >> users' username. Presently it appears to generate them from whatever I set >> the 'email' attribute to, but this must be a valid email address format. I >> would like it to use HTTP_UID, but I cannot figure out how to do this. >> >> The relevant config from gitlab.rb looks like this: >> >> gitlab_rails['omniauth_enabled'] = true >> gitlab_rails['omniauth_allow_single_sign_on'] = true >> gitlab_rails['omniauth_block_auto_created_users'] = false >> gitlab_rails['omniauth_providers'] = [ >> { >> "name" => 'shibboleth', >> "args" => { >> "shib_session_id_field" => "HTTP_SHIB_SESSION_ID", >> "shib_application_id_field" => "HTTP_SHIB_APPLICATION_ID", >> "uid_field" => "HTTP_UID", >> "name_field" => "HTTP_CN", >> "info_fields" => { >> "email" => "HTTP_MAIL", >> }, >> }, >> "label" => "foo" >> } >> ] >> >> Thanks! >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "GitLab" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/gitlabhq/vnEyKie2G7I/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/gitlabhq/53dbebce-86c8-4d54-91f9-48dcdf8a707f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/53dbebce-86c8-4d54-91f9-48dcdf8a707f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- This email is confidential. Please print it out and burn it after reading. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitLab" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/CAF7L9aRjysG%2B94EXxietQY%3D%3Dqs3MNZ6VBmFP%2B88TppwEGWDyPg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.