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[Paul Menzel <address@concealed>]

Dear David,


Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 11:44 +0100 schrieb David Verdin:

> Paul Menzel a écrit : 

> > Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 11:02 +0100 schrieb David Verdin: 

> > > 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.
> > >     
> > 
> > Understood. Thank you for your explanation. One last question regarding
> > this issue.
> > 
> > What happened to the accounts formerly created using the old dialogue?
> > Were they deleted? So I just need to create a CRU account with this
> > address?
> >   
> No, the former accounts were not deleted. Most of them have been
> migrated to Shibboleth. I forgot this part, sorry.
> So actually it is likely that you have a CRU account already. Try your
> former password after clicking the "Login with your CRU account"
> button.

Well, at least it did not work for my account. On [1] I get

No account found correponding to this email address. Please retry or contact 
us.

But it could be, because I had created this one just before the
migration, so it was not picked up?


Thanks,

Paul


[1] 
https://federation.cru.fr/sac/faces/casRedirect.jsp;jsessionid=A68142BEDA8C8B1F239BCE892FFBC6B3

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