[Kolab-devel] [issue4161] DIMP not selectable in kolab-webclient login with auth driver kolab

[Arvid Requate]

Hello,

Quoting Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de>:
> I did not look at the code now nor did I debug the code yet. I'm
> certainly willing to do that but I do not understand the problem yet.
>  From your report I assume that the login on your server works via
> mail address but it fails if you try via UID. Is that correct?

yes.

> If that is the case then this is something that I can currently not
> reproduce on a standard Kolab OpenPKG server.
> https://issues.kolab.org/issue3309 has been closed as resolved and UID
> login was explicitly tested. And I'm absolutely certain it works on
> the current release. My standard test user is usually named
> "1 at example.com" with UID "1". And I always login with this UID "1" as
> it is conveniently short.

The issue is reproducable if uid != local part of emailaddress, maybe the 
debug logs did not show this.

> I'm not certain I follow your steps here. But am I correct if I assume
> that your patch is about always using the "uniquser" value as that
> contains the mail address rather than the UID? And that login fails if
> the code tries to use the UID?
>
> It may well be that this also happens on the OpenPKG server. The
> difference would be: A login via UID on the Imapd server succeeds. It
> has to succeed as you won't be able to use UID login with an external
> client on your IMAP server.
>
> Can you give me some additional hints?

Cyrus IMAPD in Standard UCS only supports login via mailbox-name 
(mailPrimaryAddress).

Best regards,
Arvid

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