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  • Subject: [sympa-users] LDAP Alternate Email authentication
  • Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 11:16:54 +0200

We are using LDAP to authenticate our users - listmasters, owners & ordinary
list memebers.

Looking at the manual http://www.sympa.org/manual_6.0/authentication - we are
running Sympa 6.0.3 - it implies we should be able to use uid, primary email
address or alternate and get the same result.

Our experience is that alternate email address logs in as that and just shows
lists related to the alternate email address.

Uid and primary email address just show lists related to the primary email
address.

While we have attempted to normalise all email addresses in Symap to be the
primary, it is hard to avoid the occaisonal use of the alternate and to stop
people logging in as alternate email address.

Is it possible to get primary and alternate to be regarded as equivalent?

Here is my LDAP paragraph from auth.conf with host redacted:

# Brunel LDAP defined here
ldap
host ahost.brunel.ac.uk:389
timeout 20
suffix ou=people,dc=nis,dc=brunel,dc=ac,dc=uk
get_dn_by_uid_filter (uid=[sender])
get_dn_by_email_filter (|(mail=[sender])
(brunelMailAcceptAddres
s=[sender]))
email_attribute mail
alternative_email_attribute brunelMailAcceptAddress
scope sub

Thanks,

Peter Polkinghorne



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