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[Sam Lalonde <address@concealed>]

In sympa users log in with an email address, however our LDAP server 
needs to receive "usernames" in order to do authentication.  The 
username is simply the username portion of the email address.  In older 
versions of Sympa I just re-wrote the pages so they were labelled to 
supply a username instead of a password and it worked, but now with 
version 5.01a I cannot submit usernames because something in Sympa is 
realizing that it is not an email address and it is not sending.  My 
auth.conf entry is as follows:

ldap
       host                            directory.mydomain.ca:389
       timeout                         20
       suffix                          ou=People,o=mydomain.ca
       get_dn_by_uid_filter            (uid=[sender])
       get_dn_by_email                 (mail=[sender])
       email_attribute                 mail
       scope                           sub

I would like to do one of the following:

1 (preferred) - If possible, configure auth.conf so that it knows to 
send the first part of the email address so that it will authenticate 
properly.

2 - Hack the sympa pages so that it asks for username instead of email 
address.  (This is harder on v 5 than it was on v 4.)

Any ideas?

sam