Active directory user name doesn't match Postie admin name.

I activate my users by using Active directory, as such the structure of the users user_login name is not the same as that used by wordpress and subsequently postie, both of which use the value created by $user->user_nicename.

The conflict arrises when postie checks to see if the postie admin users is a valid wordpress user. It fails because my user_login names use a . instead of a – separator.

In the settings panel postie sets the $config[‘admin_user’] to $user->user_nicename. Nice name being: firstname +”-“+surname i.e. joe-blogs.

Then when checking the user it uses:

$adminuser = get_user_by('login', $config['admin_username']);

This however is searching for a user by the users “login name”. Which in my case fails because the user_login is not set by wordpress but instead active directory, hence it isn’t the same structure.

The solution was to edit the config_form.php file and change the dropdown boxes value setting to return the users login name and not nicename.

<td>
                            <select name="postie-settings[admin_username]" id="postie-settings[admin_username]">
                                <?php
                                $adminusers = get_users("orderby=nicename&role=administrator");
                                foreach ($adminusers as $user) {
                                    $selected = "";
                                    if ($user->user_login == $admin_username) {
                                        $selected = " selected=\"selected\"";
                                    }
                                    echo "<option value=\"$user->user_login\"$selected>$user->user_nicename</option>";
                                }
                                ?>
                            </select>
                        </td>

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