Re: [webmin-l] LDAP Users and Groups - Possible bug?

[Murray T. <mtr...@ce...>]

> On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 23:40, Murray Trainer wrote:
> > Hi Jamie,
> > 
> > I noticed that the LDAP mail attribute of users created by the LDAP 
> > Users and Groups module is of the form firstname.surname@domain while 
> > the Cyrus mailbox uses the uid as its name.  This makes it difficult to 
> > deliver mail to the Cyrus mailbox with Postfix using LDAP alias tables 
> > as the mail attribute does not match the mailbox name or uid.  The 
> > edited entry below from the file test.ldif included with the module is 
> > the sort of format I think should be created.  The mail attribute is 
> > uid@domain and alias is firstname.surname@domain.  It looks like the 
> > modules behaviour was changed at some stage - deliberately or 
> > accidentally?  I have the module configured with the "Show fields for 
> > given name and surname" set to "No" as I get duplicate sn attribute 
> > errors with the schemas I am using if it is set to yes.  The format of 
> > the mail attribute may be different if it is set to yes but I can't test 
> > that.
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out - I don't use LDAP for email much myself,
> so didn't notice how odd it was to use the firstname and surname in the
> email address! I will add an option on the Module Config page in future
> versions to use the user@domain format for the mail attribute instead ..
> 
>  - Jamie

I just managed to get my Postfix LDAP aliases working with the current
setup so the fix isn't urgent but I will use the new option when it is
available.  I have included a working query filter and result_attribute
below for anyone trying to get Postfix working with LDAP aliases because
it took me a fair while to get it right.

Murray


query_filter =(|(mail=%s...@my...)(alias=%s...@my...)(mail=%s)
(alias=%s))
result_attribute = uid