WordPress User Creation Does Not Work With Login Form

Resolved timwuk
(@timwuk)

9 years, 11 months ago

I have run into a problem where ultimate member is not accepting email addresses when using the login form.

I have OpenLDAP where the users cn=username@domain.com. At this point in time the user does not exist in WordPress. If I log into WordPress using the wp-login.php WordPress creates the user from LDAP. But if I use the login form from Ultimate Member no network traffic is generated when clicking the login button. So no user is created in WordPress.

If I go into OpenLdap and change the users cn from their email address to cn=username.domain.com. (Change the @ to a full stop) Ultimate Member generates network traffic and the user is created in WordPress.

To summarise if you enter an email address into the Ultimate Member login form, and the email address does not already exist in the WordPress users the LDAP server is not queried.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/

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Plugin Author Ultimate Member
(@ultimatemember)

9 years, 11 months ago

Hi Timwuk,

What is OpenLDAP and how does it relate to WordPress?

Thanks

Thread Starter timwuk
(@timwuk)

9 years, 11 months ago

OpenLDAP is a free, open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) developed by the OpenLDAP Project.

Think of it like Microsoft Active Directory.

All of our users credentials are stored on this server. When a user does not exist in WordPress, I have a plugin that automatically creates the user in WordPress when they try to log into WordPress. But if your default login form is being used this does not happen with a properly formatted email address. If I use a not formatted email address, so I drop the @ sign and replace it with a ., everything works.

I can create a video for you to see what happens if you like?

Ethan O’Sullivan
(@ethanosullivan)

9 years, 9 months ago

Hi,

Having the same issue as well and we use LDAP. It appears this was an issu made about a year ago but it was never resolved:

https://ultimatemember.com/forums/topic/unable-to-use-um-login-interface-please-help/

As a partial solution, users are able to login with their LDAP credentials using the default WordPress login at /wp-login.php but not Ultimate Member’s login form. However, for me, I do not want LDAP users to login through the default WordPress page.

verysiberian
(@verysiberian)

9 years, 9 months ago

Hi,

You might try importing your users using this plugin instead:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/

Using it, I was able to import a large website database (~2,500 members) from an old ASP.NET site and UM recognized the logins and user metadata.

Good luck!
Rob

Ethan O’Sullivan
(@ethanosullivan)

9 years, 9 months ago

Importing the data isn’t the issue. It’s the conflict between the LDAP and Ultimate Member. Since we will be having new members in the future sign in with their LDAP credentials.

verysiberian
(@verysiberian)

9 years, 9 months ago

My suggestion is a workaround since your LDAP will not work with the Ultimate Member login page that you want to use. As suggests, you could import the data from your LDAP and then your users could log in through the UM login page. Or you may wish to pursue custom development to get your LDAP users able to log in through the UM login page.

Good luck!