= Add a parameter for optional suppressing of error msg =
If multiple LDAP authenticators are used the first ldap authenticator might find you're not validated correctly. Even though a second authentication method provides a successful login you end up with an error message "Invalid username or password". 

The `report_invalid_credentials` parameter one can provide after having applied the patch below allows to suppress the error being generated on the first ldap authenticator. See line 5 and 6 

{{{#!python
## config snippet, simplified for documentation purposes  
from MoinMoin.auth.ldap_login import LDAPAuth
from farmconfig import FarmConfig

automation_users_ldap = LDAPAuth( 
  ...,
  name='ldap_automated', # requires recent 1.8 (e.g. 1.8.7)
  report_invalid_credentials=False, # don't show error message from this authenticator (requires >1.8.7 or patch, see below)
  ... ) 
human_users_ldap = LDAPAuth( 
  ...,
  name='ldap_human', # requires recent 1.8 (e.g. 1.8.7)
  report_invalid_credentials=True, # optional but set for clarity
  ...)

# for old 1.8.x (e.g. 1.8.4) you might need instead of the name=... param:
#automation_users_ldap.name ='ldap_automated' 
#human_users_ldap.name ='ldap_human' 

class FarmConfig(DefaultConfig):
  #in my case i'm using a farm and want to set ldap authentication per instance
  ...

class Config(FarmConfig):
  # your regular instance config or an instance in a farm
  auth = [automation_users_ldap, human_users_ldap] # 
  ...
}}}

= Patch / Changeset =

Remco, thanks for the patch! It was added to 1.8 (and will later be merged into 1.9) by:

http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/rev/0ca159b745e8

Note: I changed the parameter name from "report_invalid_username" to "report_invalid_credentials" and also updated the sample ldap_login snippet.

-- ThomasWaldmann <<DateTime(2010-02-21T17:45:04+0100)>>

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