Update: Kolab/Horde - problem with ext. LDAP & IMAP

[Andre Mathibe]

Hi Gunnar
Am Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2008 schrieb Gunnar Wrobel:
> I wouldn't expect this to work. If you go into the Auth class and
> modify it so that you can use the UID I believe you will break Horde
> in many places. I did not analyze the situation in detail but I
> believe when Horde accesses the Kolab IMAP server a lot of the
> procedures are dependent on knowing the users mail address.
>
> Maybe there are workarounds to some parts and you could probably even
> recode it so that Horde internally uses the UID and always calls back
> on LDAP to get the mail address if required. But somehow I don't think
> this makes much sense or would be worth the effort.
>
> The current solution allows UID login by simply rewriting the UID to
> the mail address on the login and thus getting the primary identifier
> early on. On a standard Kolab server this works just fine.
>
> Maybe you can describe in more detail why you need it to work with the
> UID?
>
.... because i have a fully functional 50User infrastructure (completely 
everywhere with LINUX/BSD) with an OpenLDAP as a central authentication 
backend.
It works perfectly since a few years,... we use Kontact, calender is stored in 
dimap, shared emailfolders, many addressbooks (stored in LDAP) etc. Our 
applications (mostly webbased) are using LDAP as backend.
So the user only have to know (and change) one(!) password to login to 
different apps wherever a login is needed.
KOLAB/Horde would fit perfectly in our envoirement (with any necessary small 
adjustments,... i thought....) because it uses the same products out of the 
box as we always here have,......
Now,.... i have to attach some branch offices to our infratructure with 
Windowsclients, Outlook-possesd users and the requirement to access all 
functions via webclient,.....  KOLAB/HORDE/Toltec-Conn. is IMHO the only key 
for success.....

btw,.... back to my auth-problem,....when i´ve logged in to HORDE and i open 
in the Webmail-Tree in the left navbar, a login screen appears. Logging in 
with the normal credentials (uid) a second time, the whole IMAP access is 
present through HORDE. That is confusing, so HORDE is authenticating to IMAP 
with the users uid and not with the eMail-address.

.... any help and idea in any way would be appreciated,... 

-- 
Andre Mathibe
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