On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Anders Mydland <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> 2011/5/10 Laurentiu Ceausescu <[email protected]>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
>
> True, but this will not direct the incoming call (and even if it were,
> you're still limited to one).
>
What do you mean here? Do you mean the user cannot have more than one DID?
The user alias field can accept more than one entry, you simply separate
them with a space between entries.

> If it should, it's not working..
>
> DID rules in the dial plan do of course work for contiguous blocks.
>
> I still believe one should be able to get additional aliases / numbers from
> LDAP, as described below.
>
>
>>
>>> 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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