On 16 Jan 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This hack might be worth merging mainline. > > My patch below allows users to login with LDAP_MAIL, > LDAP_MAILALTERNATE, or LDAP_UID via qmail-ldap auth_*. > In terms of LDAP attributes that is, they can login with their mail > mailalternateaddress or uid values. > > My ldap directory has multiple ou=customerdomain,[base dn] entries which > then contain multiple email users who's uid is only uniq within the > ou=custdomain subtree. This patch allows us to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and [EMAIL PROTECTED] without doing any of the traditional virtualization > stuff by > allowing them to login with email addresses instead of uids.
While this appears useful at first glance, what if several users have the same e-mail address? Which password will you check? Ted
