[horde] username always null in prefs_init hooks with LDAP auth

[Jan Schneider]

2013/10/7 Guenter Bartsch <guenter.bartsch at gmail.com>
>
> >> to our horde setup which is using ldap authentication to set up the
> >> default from email address for all users. unfortunately it doesn't
> >> work because $username is always null when the hook is called:
> >>
> >> Sep 30 10:37:02 mail2 HORDE: [horde] prefs_init, pref=from_addr [pid
> >> 30196]
> >> Sep 30 10:37:02 mail2 HORDE: [horde] prefs_init, username= [pid 30196]
> >>
> >> this is the code we have added to generate the log output pasted above:
> >>
> >> <?php
> >> class Horde_Hooks
> >> {
> >>     public function prefs_init($pref, $value, $username, $scope_ob)
> >>     {
> >>
> >>         $logger = $GLOBALS['injector']->getInstance('Horde_Log_Logger');
> >>         $logger->info('prefs_init, pref=' . $pref);
> >>         $logger->info('prefs_init, username=' . $username);
> >>
> >> anybody got any idea how to debug this further?
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >>
> >>    guenter
> >
> >
> > The hooks is only called if the preference or identities are not set yet,
> > i.e. for guests or new users.
>
> hmm - actuall my log output clearly shows the hook is being called
> each time I log in so this is (for whatever reason) not the problem in
> our case.
>
> the real issue is no username is passed

Because it is called for the guest (unauthenticated) user, which has
never a preference stored.

> - I did look at the comments
> in the hook templates, they mention this is the case when the user is
> not authenticated. however, login and therefore authentication works
> fine using ldap - I am wondering if we might have our whole auth chain
> upside down (i.e. we should have imp authenticate against ldap/imap
> while the rest of horde uses the imp for authentication instead of the
> other way round) ?