[Phpgroupware-tracker] [support #103665] Some strange behaviours int phpgw's LDAP implementation

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URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailitem&item_id=103665>
Project: phpGroupWare
Submitted by: 0
On: ven 10.12.2004 at 04:00

Category:  Feature Request
Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  5 - Average
Resolution:  None
Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None
Originator Email:  address@hidden
Status:  Open


Summary:  Some strange behaviours int phpgw's LDAP implementation

Original Submission:  I just installed phpgw 0.9.16.003 with LDAP account 
management and found some issues that look strange, if not annoying:
- Why the need of "non overlaping" uid and gid? I saw that LDAP entries are 
created with a gid=uid, but no group entry with that gid is created. I presume 
this is the reason of this "non overlapping" thing, but having an "exact 
overlapping" would have permit coherent user and group creation, just like some 
Unices do.
- Setup asks for accounts and contact LDAP context (first in system setup, 
second in addressbook setup), but says:
"WARNING!! LDAP is valid only if you are NOT using contacts for accounts 
storage!". What does it mean? Does it mean phpgw can't distinguish between 
accounts and contacts LDAP entries? This is what LDAP branches are done for!
- LDAP entries are created without the superior objectclasses, even without the 
"top" objectclass. I'm not sure, but this could be an issue with V3 only LDAP 
servers.

To make it short: I know that opinions are like LDAP ways of using (everyone 
has one ;-) ), but I'd like a more standard LDAP implementation, so that 
accounts are useable as unix ones (with the help of pam_ldap ans nss_ldap e.g.) 
and contacts are standard LDAP contacts wich I could use for example with my 
favorite e-mail user agent.











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