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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi,

That's a delicate problem: in some cases, we really need to use 
canonical emails. Maybe this behaviour could be enabled / disabled 
through a Sympa parameter.

Regards,

David

Matthias Warkus a écrit :
> 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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David Verdin
Comité réseau des universités