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Allow LDAP search users with *term* #45555

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Fix #11540 and #14153

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Fix #11540 and #14153
This issues were close, but because the user "didn't use NextCloud anymore"

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In Database User Backend, search is based on "term". But in LDAP, it's only "term*". This is confusing for user experience.

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My commit is not in the context of Arawa company. How can i have two different sign-offs ?

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@@ -1564,7 +1564,7 @@ private function prepareSearchTerm(string $term): string {
if ($term === '') {
$result = '*';
} elseif ($allowEnum !== 'no') {
$result = $term . '*';
$result = '*' . $term . '*';
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I think the limitation was on purpose. @come-nc and @blizzz?

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It is on purpose, yes. There should be a related issue and PR in this repo, too.

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I read some supposed performance limitations on big LDAP organisations. But:

  • all i read on LDAP documentation never mention "don't do term" as it is even described in the main documentation.
  • this might be based on old benchmarks on bad LDAP system
  • why is the "*" allowed that will send "all users" in that case ?
  • the SQL part does the term and nobody asked to remove this for performance reason
  • this is very very confusing for the user experience (i thought this was a bug and i lost hours searching what was wrong with my LDAP until i debug in PHP)

In conclusion, at least, why presuming all ldap are made with millions of users ? Why not let users have the same behaviour between LDAP and NextCloud ? And maybe bring an LDAP option "don't allow term because my ldap is too slow" if someone complain for it ?

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@smarinier smarinier force-pushed the fix/11540/user_ldap_search_partial_not_efficient branch from 08fe4e2 to 8621eba Compare June 12, 2024 14:29
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If you make it a config option, maybe, but we cannot merge this as-is.
I do not have the details about when the decision was first taken, and I agree that with a good LDAP setup wildcard search is not an issue, but there is a lot of code in Nextcloud which is made to account for badly configured LDAP server, this is not the only place.

@solracsf solracsf added this to the Nextcloud 30 milestone Jun 18, 2024
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@skjnldsv skjnldsv modified the milestones: Nextcloud 30, Nextcloud 31 Aug 14, 2024
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