oauth does not update user profile fields

oauth does not update user profile fields

by Robert Schrenk -
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Hello,

On our site users are log in via oAuth using Microsoft. When we update user profile data in Azure they will not be updated on our Moodle site.

I debugged the login procedure and found out that the profile fields are successfully retrieved in the "complete_login"-function. The variable $userinfo contains everything correctly. Nevertheless nothing gets updated.

I saw in the code that based on the data from $userinfo a mapped user is retrieved. If the script finds a user it seems to overwrite $userinfo.

} else if ($mappeduser && $mappeduser->confirmed) {
     $userinfo = (array) $mappeduser;
     $userwasmapped = true;
}

Does anybody has a solution for this?

Kind regards



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Re: oauth does not update user profile fields

by Daniel Dubbeldam -
I think I have the same problem. 
let me clarify, so you can decide it is the same problem:

I have a working OAUTH2 connection with an Azure environment.  This connection as such works fine.

there are, however, 2 issues i'm encountering:

  1. if a user already exists in Moodle it does not get updated through Azure. In Example:
    - I created a manual account in Moodle with name "firstname lastname" and the right e-mailadress.
    - User with that e-mailadress logs in through the Oauth connection.
    - user sees "firstname lastname" in Moodle instead of his real name.
    * this however might be solved through https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-61767
  2. The user from 1 is in a certain "Department" in Azure. under "admin/tool/oauth2/userfieldmappings.php?issuerid=1" I have mapped this field with the moodle field "Institution":
    user field mapping
    However... This field is not set when a user is created nor updated when the users is already known in Moodle and (re-)logs in..

This second issue is bugging me. some who can help me? If this is NOT related to the question of Robert Schrenk, please feel free to create a fork of this issue ;) 

Daniel Dubbeldam

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