[horde] homedir based on uid and not username

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von "Leland J. Steinke" <steinkel at ctinetworks.com>:

> We have our user home directories set up by uid, rather than username.
> This allows for usernames to be changed at will, without losing access
> to previously received messages or stored files.  In other discussions,
> we have described this as having a "handle" that is unchanging while the
> username and/or domain changes.  We even have a number of users with
> several usernames associated with the same uid and same homedir.
>
> Is it possible to replicate this in horde?  I would think horde would do
> initial authentication with the provided username and password, grab the
> uid handle, along with any other usernames associated with it, and
> finally populate identities with the collected username information.
>
> Looking over horde/config/hooks.php, it looks like we could generate an
> internal username based on the uid, but I am still uncertain as to what
> is possible.  We are still horde newbies, so please be gentle.  ;-)

Yes, this should be possible, using the _username_from/to_backend hooks.

Jan.

-- 
Do you need professional PHP or Horde consulting?
http://horde.org/consulting/