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Reviewed:  https://reviews.mahara.org/1300
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/5c578a384dcfc2a7809b8d78b415b5082c84793b
Submitter: Richard Mansfield (richardm@xxxxxxxxxx)
Branch:    master

commit 5c578a384dcfc2a7809b8d78b415b5082c84793b
Author: Simon Story <simon.story@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed May 30 15:52:21 2012 +0100

    Add SAML config error for autocreation & registerallowed (bug #1003980)
    
    Display an error if a user tries to enable auto-creation at the same
    time as having registration enabled for an instition.
    
    Change-Id: I22cf0df27c5e4edc3d7f71e8870fe84620419279
    Signed-off-by: Richard Mansfield <richard.mansfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Title:
  SAML user autocreation can become impossible

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  It is possible to put yourself in a situation where users having users
  auto-created by an authentication plugin is impossible.

  By design, for auto-creation to happen, all institutions must be
  registerallowed = 0 .

  By design, when an authentication plugin is added to an institution,
  registerallowed is set to 0. But it is not set for all institutions,
  if multiple exist.

  Once an authentication plugin is added to an institution, via the web
  interface the control to toggle registerallowed for an institution is
  hidden.

  To reproduce from a fresh installation of Mahara:
  Create an institution
  Set config item usersuniquebyusername = 1
  Add and configure an authentication plugin
  Attempt to login with with a new user that should autocreate, which will fail because the 'mahara' institution will still have registerallowed = 1

  To workaround:
  Connect to the database and set registerallowed = 0 for all institutions, eg 'UPDATE institution set registerallowed = 0 ;'.

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