Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

Hi Jerome,

Jérôme Marant wrote:

>   I happen to have a problem in my Debian package related to
>   LDAP.
> 
>   Could you please answer the following questions:
>   Is LDAP mandatory or optional currently ? 

It is mandatory.

>   Must a auth.conf file be present on the system in order to make sympa 
> work ?

Not at all, auth.conf is only required to perform LDAP-based authentication.
Though, is current release of Sympa, a log entry tells :
        «Cannot find /home/sympa/etc/auth.conf»

This has been moved to debug information now.

>   What triggers the LDAP feature in Sympa?

Net::LDAP module is included in Sympa in the following cases :
        1/ an 'include_ldap_query' parameter is defined in a
           list config
        2/ LDAP named filters are used  
           ( 
http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/doc/sympa/node8.html#SECTION00820000000000000000)
        3/ an auth.conf has been found

>   Someone told me he couldn't start Sympa without auth.conf but
>   I don't really believe this. So I added an empty auth.conf but
>   now wwsympa.fcgi complains not to find Net::LDAP (which has
>   has been optional so far).

Unfortunaltely the 'require Net::LDAP' directive makes Sympa die
if the Net::LDAP module was not installed. WWSympa does this whenever
an auth.conf was found.

=> we have precised this condition to «if auth.conf was found AND
auth.conf is not emtpy».

This should solve the problem.
A patch is available :
http://listes.cru.fr/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/sympa/wwsympa/wwsympa.fcgi.diff?r1=1.229&r2=1.230&f=c

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités