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

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