Crazy coincidence, I had the same problem and hadn't even seen the
original e-mail from Jillian. My pull request implementing this was
merged by Nate earlier this week.

https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/pull-request/157/increased-flexibility-for-ftp-directory/diff

You can just grab the three changesets out of there and apply them to
your local galaxy repository. Then you just need to set the new
`ftp_upload_dir_identifier` option in universe_wsgi.ini to `username`.

Hope this helps.

-John

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Adam Brenner <aebrenne@uci.edu> wrote:
> We would also be looking forward to seeing a solution (or hack) like this.
> We currently have a a gluster filesystem setup where users drop big data to
> /gl/tmp/user/. Keeping this format would be best.
>
> However, I believe a simple symbolic link would also work with Galaxy.
>
>      for i in $(ls /gl/tmp/user); do ln -s /gl/tmp/user
> /gl/tmp/user@uci.edu;done;
>
>
> --
> Adam Brenner
> Computer Science, Undergraduate Student
> Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
>
> Research Computing Support
> Office of Information Technology
> http://www.oit.uci.edu/rcs/
>
> University of California, Irvine
> www.ics.uci.edu/~aebrenne/
> aebrenne@uci.edu
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Jillian Rowe
> <jir2004@qatar-med.cornell.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a galaxy instance authentication using LDAP. The authentication
>> works fine, and I would like to enable the user upload option.
>>
>> I would like to have:
>>
>> user_library_import_dir = /a/path
>>
>> and for galaxy to look for users with just the username. So if I log in
>> with auser@example.com
>>
>> I want for galaxy to look in /a/path/auser instead of
>> /a/path/auser@example.com
>>
>> Is there anywhere I can set this?
>>
>> Best,
>> Jillian
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