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[Christian Dahlhausen <address@concealed>]

Hi,
we are in the beginnings of a migration from mailman to sympa with approx. 11000 mailing lists. I believe we have a similar infrastructure as Matthias, several email aliases for users in our ldaps. I believe a patched LDAP authentication could come in handy in the near future. 

Christian

2009/8/26 Matthias Warkus <address@concealed>

Hello,

we are slowly rolling out Sympa 6.0b.2 at the present stage, a couple of
lists with 1200 subscribers have been migrated. We are starting to
notice the following problem: All of our local users log in via LDAP.
They all have multiple aliased e-mail adresses, and thus multiple LDAP
mail attributes. When they log in with one of those addresses or their
UID, they will be logged in under an address that is not necessarily the
one they have entered or the one they prefer, and not necessarily the
one their subscriptions and privileges are registered under.

We think that if an LDAP login is successful and the login string that
has been used is an e-mail address, WWSympa should always log the user
in under the address they have entered. At the moment it seems to try to
guess which address the user "would have wanted to enter", and this
causes problems.

We are pondering to patch Auth::ldap_authentication() to improve this
behaviour, but we don't fully understand it yet. For example, what is
the role of the cookie that WWSympa keeps in the client browser?

Greetings,
mawa
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