topic [SOLVED] Username '.' problems in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/solved-username-problems/m-p/190770#M143900 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I thought this might help some people out.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>After customising my install i was 90% with the setup, however I was experiencing 2 problems with my current install. These issues would occur for all users but 'admin'. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>1) A user would not be able to update their password via the share application, when update was clicked nothing would happen.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>2) A user would not be able to list members on any site they were a part of, a servlet error was thrown please see related thread &gt; </SPAN><A href="http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=47&amp;t=16386" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=47&amp;t=16386</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you visited the above link, you would now know that this is related to using a '.' in your usernames. I am not sure if this is an 'all around' issue or just one in the community v3.x server for Linux, either way if you are having this issue you this could be a quick fix.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;">The fix that worked for me:</SPAN><BR /><EM>Note please back up your files before making these changes. I would hate to be responsible for giving advice which destroys your installation. If you are not comfortable with following the directions below, or you do not understand please to <STRONG>do not</STRONG> make these changes.</EM><BR /><BR /><STRONG>First edit the file:</STRONG><BR /><SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;">tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/site/membership/membership.get.desc.xml</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Find the line:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;format default="json"/&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>and replace with…</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;format default="json"&gt;argument&lt;/format&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><STRONG>Next: edit the file:</STRONG><BR /><SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;">tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/person/changepassword.post.desc.xml</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Find the line:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;format default="json"/&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>and replace with…</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;format default="json"&gt;argument&lt;/format&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><STRONG>Next:</STRONG><BR /><SPAN>Use ./alf_stop.sh to stop your alfresco server, then start again with ./alf_start.sh</SPAN><BR /><BR /><STRONG>Next:</STRONG><BR /><SPAN>Monitor the output of log file with:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>tail -f alresco.log </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You should see something resembling: [org.alfresco.web.site.FrameworkHelper] Successfully Initialized Web Framework] in the last line, if not you may need to restore the 2 files you just edited and post the issue.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hope this helps.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Cheers,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Rowan</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:40:10 GMT row_jj_p 2009-02-06T00:40:10Z [SOLVED] Username '.' problems https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/solved-username-problems/m-p/190770#M143900 I thought this might help some people out.After customising my install i was 90% with the setup, however I was experiencing 2 problems with my current install. These issues would occur for all users but 'admin'. 1) A user would not be able to update their password via the share application, when upd Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:40:10 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/solved-username-problems/m-p/190770#M143900 row_jj_p 2009-02-06T00:40:10Z Re: [SOLVED] Username '.' problems https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/solved-username-problems/m-p/190771#M143901 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks for the useful post - that's exactly the fix needed.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>There are a few other webscript definitions you should update at the same time in order to completely fix the bug. Please see </SPAN><A href="https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-1101" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-1101</A><SPAN> for details.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Many thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Mike</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:01:51 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/solved-username-problems/m-p/190771#M143901 mikeh 2009-02-06T01:01:51Z