Thank you for the quick answers.
I had already tried what Thierry suggested but that does not work in my
case.
What worked for me was:
bindFields = (uid, cn, mail);
and the possibility to identify by various means (email, uid, ...) is great!
Best regards,
Yannick
On 25 November 2014 at 17:01, Christian Mack <christian.m...@uni-konstanz.de
> wrote:
> Am 2014-11-25 um 16:35 schrieb ybarbe...@gmail.com:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to authenticate with SOGO by an external LDAP server.
> > The problem I face is that the login of a user is not the cn field but
> the
> > uid.
> >
> > For example, a user named John SMITH should identify with login johnsmit
> > (first 4 letters of first name followed by first 4 letters of last name).
> > My LDAP entries look like this:
> >
> > dn: cn=John Smith,o=MyCompany,ou=People,dc=office,dc=mycompany,dc=be
> > objectClass: top
> > objectClass: posixAccount
> > objectClass: shadowAccount
> > objectClass: inetOrgPerson
> > objectClass: person
> > cn: John Smith
> > departmentNumber: Techniciens
> > description:: test
> > displayName: John SMITH
> > gecos: John SMITH
> > gidNumber: 5150
> > givenName: John
> > homeDirectory: /home/johnsmit
> > loginShell: /bin/bash
> > mail: john.sm...@mycompany.be
> > mail: johns...@mycompany.be
> > mobile: 0
> > o: MyCompany
> > sn: SMITH
> > telephoneNumber: 0
> > title: Assistant
> > uid: johnsmit
> > uidNumber: 5150
> > userPassword: {crypt}blablabla
> >
> > The only way I have found so far is to replace all cn fields with the
> uid. In
> > the latter case, my dn would become:
> >
> > dn: cn=johnsmit,o=MyCompany,ou=People,dc=office,dc=mycompany,dc=be
> >
> > Is there any solution ther than modifying all my LDAP dn entries ?
> >
>
> Sure there is.
> You have to change the settings in your SOGoUserSources.
> In there set
> bindFields = ( uid );
> or
> bindFields = (uid, cn, mail);
>
> With the latter users can identify with uid or cn or email address.
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Christian Mack
>
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