[Mageia-discuss] Mailing list migration: this list is closing

Mon Apr 8 09:33:42 CEST 2013

On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 10:02:18PM -0400, andre999 wrote:
+> nicolas vigier a écrit :
+
+> >
+> >The only way currently is to create an identity account for each address
+> >you want to use. We can look if it would possible to support an other
+> >way to do it, but I don't know if that's possible. And of course any
+> >suggestion about how sympa could be configured to manage multiple email
+> >addresses with only one ldap account is welcome.
+> >
+> >
+> I don't know if this is easily configurable, but the online
+> documentation for sympa 6.1 has an example that seems to permit
+> filtering by multiple addresses with ldap.
+> see http://www.sympa.org/manual/authorization-scenarios#search_condition
+> 
+> Their example shows both
+>  salaun at cru.fr
+> and
+>  O.salaun at cru.fr
+> being accepted with the same filter, whereas only the first is coded
+> as such.
+> 
+> This seems to offer interesting possibilities, allowing users to
+> have alternate email adresses with different prefixes of their ldap
+> adresse.
+> (by automatically adding * to the beginning of user ldap adresses.)
+> The code could require a minimum length to minimise false positives,
+> and/or add the * just before @.
+> 
+> Would this work, and without too much effort ?
+
+The goal of having 1 unified login is to reduce ( usually in a company ) the amount
+of support of helpdesk, and the work of user because they need to have 1 login/password.
+
+This also prevent login conflict, since there is 1 single place where this is resolved 
+for uniqueness.
+
+Your suggestion will just increase the support time due to increased complexity, and so 
+reduce the time avaliable for the sysadmin team, since from what I see, they are in 
+charge of the servers, and the function of support.
+
+So if you think they have no better way to spend their time and that this is so
+"business critical" to permit to have a mess regarding who said what, sure, go ahead
+and provides a patch. If I am not wrong, the configuration is on :
+http://svnweb.mageia.org/adm/puppet/modules/sympa/
+
+But if the only goal is to satisfy the special need of a few unique snowflakes, that's not really a
+good move.
+
+-- 
+L.
+