Re: [webmin-l] LDAP User's and Groups Module Duplicate Alias Issue

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 08:46, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 16:34 +0800, Murray Trainer wrote:
> > Hi Craig,
> > 
> > I am talking about e-mail aliases which are entered in the Mail Aliases
> > field.  That stores the entry in the user's alias LDAP attribute.
> > 
> > Murray
> > 
> > 
> > > On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 16:10 +0800, Murray Trainer wrote:
> > > > Hi Jamie,
> > > > 
> > > > I noticed that the module allows me to give two different users the same
> > > > alias.  This isn't the behaviour desired in my case.  Is there any way
> > > > of stopping this by checking if the alias already exists?  I suppose
> > > > that would involve an LDAP search for the requested new alias of all
> > > > users under that domain and accepting it if it didn't already exist.  
> > > ----
> > > Alias? email alias? attribute? dn?
> > > 
> > > Clarify please
> -----
> In that event - an attribute of an entry, openldap wouldn't catch that
> and I wouldn't know about other ldap programs. That would be an
> interesting escalation of the power of the LDAP Users and Groups module.
> Considering that some of the attributes are necessarily duplicated
> within the DSA and some are necessarily unique, an option to check for
> uniqueness would have to be very configurable.

That is quite a good idea for a feature actually .. in the next release,
I will add a Module Config option to specify custom fields that are not
allowed to contain duplicates with other users. Also, the mail alias
field will automatically have this enforced ..

 - Jamie