The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi and sorry for the late answer. I was buried in the 5.4.5 finalisation. ;)

The Sympa wiki uses Sympa authorization. Shortly: the access rights 
depend on list subscription.
All our services use now Shibboleth authentication (see: 
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/). You authenticate to our Shibboleth 
identity provider (which we call the "CRU accounts") and it send to the 
applications the attributes needed for authorization. Namely your email 
address.
consequently, you must set up a CRU account to be able to log into the 
wiki or the Sympa web interface. The good news is that you have only one 
login or password for both services. They share  single sign on through 
Shibboleth, and Sympa has the role of group manager, handling all the 
authorizations for the wiki edition.
The bad news is that Sympa is now unable to send you a password 
reminder, because all these passwords are handled by Shibboleth.

So, you must create a "comptes CRU" in which your user name is the full 
email address with which you are subscribed.

So, to comment you email:

Paul Menzel a écrit :
> I am still having problems to log in. I found out how to get to a dialog
> where I can enter a username and password by trying to subscribe to
> another list.
>   
Could you give me the URL to this dialog? It should not appear. Giving a 
username and password directly to Sympa will fatally lead to a failed login.
> But, although I am sure the entered password is correct, I was not
> accepted and trying to send it to me I got the following error.
>
> ERROR (requestpasswd) - You cannot receive a password reminder ; likely 
> because your password is managed outside Sympa (Single Sign-On system or LDAP 
> directory).
>   
We should also remove this link. sympa can't send you a password 
renewal, so it should not propose a link to do so.
> What am I doing wrong. As written in a different message on the left
> side there is also only a button with Connexion display which directs me
> to the CRU-Login page [1]. There are no username or password fields.
>   
This is the right page. The one and only truth. ;)
When you click on "connexion" on the list server or in the wiki, you are 
redirected to a web page whose URL starts with 
"https://federation.cru.fr/wayf/"; followed by a lot of arguments.
In this page, click on the "Create your CRU account" button. A form is 
then displayed in which you must at least fill your email address and a 
password.
Once you have submitted the form, a mail is sent to the address you 
provided to confirm you account creation.
You can then go back to the wiki or the Sympa interface. You click on 
"connexion" and this time, click on the "Login with your CRU account" 
button.
On the next page, fill your email and password and submit. You are 
logged in.
Note that if you tick the checkbox below the "Login with your CRU 
account" button, you will not be presented this page anymore and be 
automatically redirected to the login page.

The account creation page can seem long, but remember that it provides 
you a single sign on for both Sympa and Dokuwiki.
We also use this system, along with the wiki farm functionality in 
dokuwiki for working groups: we can automatically create a wiki for each 
list, with the access rights defined by list subscription. this way, a 
working group can have both a way to broadcast information (the mailing 
list) and to create documents collboratively (the wiki).

Hope this helps.

Regards,
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
> [1] 
> https://federation.cru.fr/wayf/?shire=https%3A%2F%2Flistes.cru.fr%2Fsympa%2Fsso_login%2Ffederation_cru%2FShibboleth.sso%2FSAML%2FPOST&time=1232527000&target=cookie&providerId=https%3A%2F%2Flistes.cru.fr%2Fsympa
>   

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David Verdin
Comité réseau des universités