[turba] Re: problem with duplicate dn with LDAP backend

[Edwin Culp]

Quoting andreas oster <aoster at novanetwork.de>:

> Edwin Culp wrote:
>> Why not just use mail rather than uid in your dn.  That
>> should always be unique.  It has always seemed much simpler
>> to me.  For example my users dn is:
>>
> dear Edwin,
>
> thank you for your hint, butI think this is not always true.
> Imagine you have two people that receice their mail from one
> account (for example info at somecompany.com). If you want to
> insert an entry for both persons you run into the same
> 'duplicate dn' problem.

Strange.  You live and learn ;).  I've honestly never
contemplated adding two different people with two different
profiles and with the same email address to an ldap
directory although you can easily deliver the email to the
same maildir from varias email addresses that could be used
in a similar and possibly less confusing way either with
delivery instructions in ldap or simply with
aliases/forwards/etc.  So they both end up with a unique
email, which I would like more, but can share the same
mailbox although that isn't what you are after, me thinks.

Sorry,

ed
>
>> dn:
>> mail=eculp at viviendaatualcance.com.mx,ou=people,o=an_ldap_base
>>
>> another is:
>>
>> dn: mail=eculp at encontacto.net,ou=people,o=an_ldap_base
>>
>> it is also trivial to separate into $user=eculp and
>> $vdomain=encontacto.net by just using a couple of php
>> functions that you will find in horde/hooks.php like
>>
>> $uid = Auth::getBareAuth(); or
>> $uid = preg_replace('|@.*|i', '', Auth::getAuth();
>> and
>> $vdomain = preg_replace('|.*@|i', '', Auth::getAuth(); or if
>> you want/need to use HTTP_HOST:
>> $vdomain =
>> strtolower(preg_replace('/^mail\.|^www\.|^www\.mail\./i',
>> '', $_SERVE
>> R['HTTP_HOST']));
>>
>> Hope this helps a bit,
>>
>> ed
>>
>>>
>>> Can somebody help me with this problem/task ?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your kind help
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
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>>
>>
>
> best regards
>
> Andreas
>
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