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That was the point. + +><i> The worst happend when I had to change my email +</I>><i> address because it had to disappear. +</I> +I understand that. So we have two conflicting use cases (and it was to expect). + +><i> User must be able to change their email address. Changing the login will +</I>><i> probaby have side effect, so using email as login is probably a bad +</I>><i> idea. +</I> +These are unrelated (or should, at least). It did not push any +blocking issue for the past 5 years we used it at Mandriva. + +><i> We can ensure unicity of login on our side because we have full control, +</I>><i> but nothing prevent to a company to give same email to several people, +</I>><i> or to give a previously used email address to a new employee. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If the account become important (sys admin, distrib manager), we then +</I>><i> cannot ensure who receive the information we send. +</I> +Yes but this is true anyway. Nothing new here, and nothing different +whether we use email as an auth id or not. + +Never mind. I was just trying to push the point that the identity/ldap +thing is not just for contributors/build system and should then be +open to more flexible use-cases (than just a frozen username/password +id/auth process). We'll get there with time I guess. Let's have the +thing running first. + +Cheers, + +Romain +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000947.html">[Mageia-sysadm] [LONG] sympa ( and web apps ) ldap authentication +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000949.html">[Mageia-sysadm] [LONG] sympa ( and web apps ) ldap authentication +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#948">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#948">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#948">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#948">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">More information about the Mageia-sysadm +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |