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Thedi Gerber a écrit :

> I am evaluating Sympa for our University (ETH Zurich). We made an installation
> on a server and implemented Shibboleth validation for the WWSympa. It works
> well.
>
> My question is now: how can in configure auth.conf to force students and
> employees of our AAI federation to use the Shibboleth login, while other 
> guests
> still should be able to validate with a local password.
>
> I tryed to change auth.conf: in the user_table paragraph i added a
> negative_regex which excludes email addresses from our AAI federation. This
> works but the error message does not give any hint to use Shibboleth 
> validation
> with the supplied email address.
>
> Is it possible to customize the appropiate error message?
>  
No. May be you can  do some stuff with template.

> Ideally something working like an additional auth.conf paragraph like
>
> reject
> regexp ((ethz)(unizh))\.ch
> message Please use Shibboleth authentication to login
>
>  
It's a good idea. With the same idea I would prefer a way to specify 
some vars that can used in the template or even beter  to specify a 
template name. Could you describe this need in the bug manager 
(categorie feature).

Serge