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

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

Hi Craig,
For the mail aliases I was refering to the 'alias' attribute, which I think Cyrus uses..

 - Jamie

-----Original Message-----

From:  Craig White <cra...@az...>
Subj:  Re: [webmin-l] LDAP User's and Groups Module Duplicate Alias Issue
Date:  Sat 29 Oct 2005 8:18 pm
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On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 12:18 -0700, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> 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 ..
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I'm all for it.

Just curious - by default, Webmin doesn't include rfc822Mailbox or mail
as a standard attributes and I've always added it for the base
mailboxes. There is no standard for a mail alias unless you are talking
about the objectclass nisMailAlias which is not an attribute so I'm not
entirely sure where you are headed when you say the 'mail alias will be
automatically enforced' but I'm interested.

Craig


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