[Mageia-sysadm] some change to ldap

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op dinsdag 14 december 2010 17:57:40 schreef Michael Scherer:
> Le mardi 14 décembre 2010 à 16:06 +0100, nicolas vigier a écrit :
> > On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Michael Scherer wrote:
> > > - try to enforce mail uniqueness for secondary mail. I suspect this
> > > would requires using unique on another ou using a proxy on localhost,
> > > and while rewriting mailAlternate to mail, using rwm ( in short, a
> > > hack ).
> > 
> > Do we need mail uniqueness for secondary mail ?
> > Actually I didn't really understand the use of secondary mail yet, so
> > I'm not sure.
> 
> It depend on what we do with them.
> If we do nothing besides displaying them, yes, we do not need to have
> them unique.
> 
> If we allow to use them as login like we do for primary mail, then it
> should also be unique ( or problem will arise ).
> 
> ie, if I add misc at zarb, misc at mandriva, misc at mageia in ldap as email, the
> first one being the primary email, the 2 others would be listed as
> secondary mail, in mailAlternate.
> 
> The question is do we let people use them like they use the first ( ie
> to log, for example, on sympa, in complement to login ).
> 
> For now, and for example on sympa, I can use misc, or misc at zarb. One of
> the thing we could offer is to also let people use their others emails,
> ie misc at mandriva, misc at mageia . It is just 1 line to add to the ldap
> query used for web interface.
> 
> Advantage :
> - less time lost because people used the wrong mail for those that use
> more than 1 email

i agree, we should use the 2nd email for logging in