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["Peter Heitzer" <address@concealed>]

 >>> On 04/15/2020 at 21:08, "Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed> 
 >>> wrote: 
> On 4/15/20 2:32 PM, Peter Heitzer wrote:
>> In search for a replacement of our currently used mailing list system 
> (Mailman2.x) I found sympa. I could install a small test system with 
> working 
> ldap authentication rather easily.
>> After reading the docs a few unresolved questions about authorization 
> scenari arised. 
>> Is it possible to restrict the request for a new list in a scenari so that 
> only users authenticated via ldap are allowed to request a new list?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance
> 
> Hello Peter,
> 
> I think the scenario for the new list request is 
> create_list.public_listmaster
> (https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/blob/sympa-6.2/default/scenari/cre
> ate_list.public_listmaster).
> 
> Instead of allowing all users to request lists you could use a named filter 
> with your LDAP search used for the LDAP
> authentication.
> 
> Named filter documentation:
> https://sympa-community.github.io/manual/customize/basics-scenarios.html#lda
> p-named-filters-definition
> 
> Please let us know if you have more questions.
> 
> Regards
> 
          Racke

Thanks. Looking in the source and having set log_level to 4 and doing a few 
logins I came to the same assumption.
For testing I have used a simple text filter but LDAP is surely the preferred 
method.  
The combination of scenaries and web templates are very powerful. It makes me 
able to customize the web interface and keep it as simple
as possible for unexperienced users. Our current mailman installation does 
not have such possibilities and many users are overwhelmed
by the many settable options. Therefore we are searching for an alternative 
and sympa seems to be the right candidate.



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Dipl.-Inform(FH) Peter Heitzer, address@concealed