On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Anders Mydland <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just found what I perceive as (another) weakness in the LDAP
> functionality.
>
> Running an import will overwrite any extra aliases that are configured (and
> probably other settings too).
> Using the default LDAP mappings for Active Directory (alias ->
> sAMAccountName), this has severe implications when adding new LDAP users to
> the system...

With a typical use case for aliases being DID numbers, it would not be
> unreasonable to think that LDAP aliases and manually configured aliases
> should peacefully co-exist.
> Or am I just missing something?
>

You can setup a DID number for an user - (User / Contact information tab).
This setting will not be overwritten by a new LDAP import.


>
> Also, it's being stated on the configuration page that the user id should
> be the users extension.
> With LDAP enabled, I believe it would be better to use the users' LDAP user
> name as the default user ID, and enable multiple aliases during import (e.g.
> ipPhone / businesPhone from the directory).
>
>
> Any comments?
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Anders Mydland
>
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