[horde] Activesync username -> horde username mapping

Michael J Rubinsky mrubinsk at horde.org
Sun Dec 2 21:16:44 UTC 2012


Quoting Josko Plazonic <plazonic at math.princeton.edu>:

> Hi,
>
> I've been playing with activesync (great work btw!) and I have a  
> problem that I don't see a solution for that I was hoping you guys  
> might have a suggestion for.  With autodiscoverty (at least with a  
> few android devices I tried) the activesync username ends up being  
> user at domain.

http://wiki.horde.org/ActiveSync/KnownIssues#toc6

Bottom line, the client is broken and the user must configure manually.

   Unfortunately then that ends up being the horde
> username as well and it seems like the usual set of horde hooks  
> (preauth, postauth, authusername) do nothing in this case to  
> translate it from user at domain to user.  As a result of that once a  
> user logs in they do not see the registered device nor do they see  
> their usual calendar and settings on the mobile device.  I.e. it is  
> the case of two different users - user and user at domain.
>
> What's worse is that if they enter the wrong case, like user at Domain,  
> it ends up being treated as yet another/different user...

This is because your pref backend is case sensitive, yet your Auth  
backend is not.

-- 
mike

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