> On 01 October 2018 at 15:19 Steffen Kaiser <skdove...@inf.h-brs.de> wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 29 Sep 2018, Fady AL HAYALI wrote: > > > I'm setting up a Postfic and Dovecot with LDAP email server. My users in > > LDAP is like this: > > > > dn: uid=firstname,ou=People,dc=domain,dc=com > > uid: firstname > > uidNumber: 4025 > > gidNumber: 4025 > > givenName: firstname > > objectClass: top > > objectClass: person > > objectClass: posixAccount > > objectClass: shadowAccount > > objectClass: organizationalPerson > > objectClass: inetOrgPerson > > loginShell: /bin/bash > > homeDirectory: /home/firstname > > cn: firstname lastname > > mail: firstname.lastn...@domain.com<mailto:firstname.lastn...@domain.com> > > > > This is how I connect Dovecot with LDAP > > > > hosts = ldapserver > > ldap_version = 3 > > base = ou=People,dc=domain,dc=com > > deref = never > > scope = subtree > > user_attrs = > > user_filter = (&(objectclass=inetOrgPerson)(uid=%n) > > pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword=password > > pass_filter = (&(objectclass=inetOrgPerson)(uid=%n)) > > default_pass_scheme = SSHA > > > > When I enter a user's email address and password as the following: > > email: firstname.lastn...@domain.com<mailto:firstname.lastn...@domain.com> > > password: password > > > > and according to my setting which I used "%n" as you see above, the > > username used to authenticate is "firstname.lastname". I checked the > > Dovecot variables but I couldn't find something useful in this case to > > manipulate the "%n" variable. > > > > I would like to keep using email addresses as > > "firstname.lastn...@domain.com"<mailto:firstname.lastn...@domain.com> but > > authenticate users using their first name. I really hit a wall here and any > > help will be much appreciated. > > Well, for me, this sounds strange, using firstname only. Why not let your > users enter the firstname only? Or: > > pass_filter = (&(objectclass=inetOrgPerson)(|(uid=%n)(mail=%n@*))) > > If firstname is unique, mail should be unique as well. > > - -- > Steffen Kaiser
Steffen, I understood their mail addresses are like steffen.kai...@domain.com, but uid's are like uid=steffen Aki
