[horde] Username and pref_uid

[Christian Schoepplein]

Hi Hendrik,

thanks for your reply!

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 10:12:18AM +0100, Hendrik Noack wrote:
>> Von: horde [mailto:horde-bounces at lists.horde.org] Im Auftrag von Christian
>> Schoepplein
>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Dezember 2016 18:08
>> An: horde at lists.horde.org
>> Betreff: [horde] Username and pref_uid

[...]

>> Is there an easy way to use another pref_uid then the userId which is
>> entered while login into horde? Or to ask it another way: Can I initialize
>> a different pref_uid then the userId everytime a user is login in?
>
>I'm guessing you are using the IMAP server for authentication via horde imp
>then?

Yes.

>I'm using these hooks, so my login can be different from the mail address.

Thanks for the hooks. I am also using some hooks already to get the 
mailaddress for a user and this is working fine so far.

>So with the first hook (if you change it accordingly to your needs), you can
>build a uid like firstname.lastname.additional_string from
>firstname.lastname <= did you mean this one with authusername?

Yes, that is what I've tried. But if I change the auth username and add 
the additional string, login to the imap server failes because the 
imap serveris only accepting usernames without the additional string.

Maybe I should try to describe the problem more detailed...

In our environment the users have the login firstname.lastname. But it 
happens from time to time, that a user is leaving and another user with 
the same combination of first and lastname is created by our stupid 
peace of identity management software :-(. If such a new user, with 
the same combination of first and lastname an old user had before, is 
login into horde, the settings of the old user are loaded because the 
horde_prefs table still contains the entries for the firstname.lastname 
combination.

I am able to identify different users with the same combination of first 
and lastname by another attribute set by our identity management 
software, that is the string I'd like to add and use in the horde_prefs 
table in the pref_uid collumn.

So the problem is, that I need to use the combination firstname.lastname 
for login into horde, imp, e.g., but also use 
firstname.lastname at additional_string during a session as the internal 
horde userid.

I hope the problem / question is more clear now and maybe someone has 
a hint how to solve it :-).

Thanks and kind regards,

  Schoepp

-- 
Christian Schoepplein

Landeshauptstadt Muenchen
Referat fuer Bildung und Sport
Zentrum fuer Informationstechnologie im Bildungsbereich (ZIB)
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