Hi!

Maybe I'm doing something wrong here in my understanding.

I just set up a fresh Invenio instance and populated it with local
changes. Especially, I enabled LDAP-login right away and even made it
the default login method. So far so good and it even works nicely.

Now, I'm playing around with setting up the demo site and I stumbled
upon the point where I should enter the admin password to schedule
certain tasks. This should be empty by default, right?

However, as soon as I enabled LDAP, the admin password changes to my
LDAP-password, ie. it authenticates against LDAP all the time even
though I use a local nickname. First of all it took me a while to
understand that the local nickname (admin) gets authenticated against a
global password storage (LDAP) ie. Invenio resolves admin to my mail
address and then authenticates against the LDAP. This is ok, if
intended. (Some note in the docs would be in order. Sam, I think we
should add this to the file I sent you?)

On the other hand I'm not shure that this is sensible, especially for
the admin account. I felt that this should always allow for local login
without requiring external systems to answer properly. That's why it
took me a while to understand that I should use my LDAP credentials and
not the default password.

So, at the end I'm at a "bug or feature" question...

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Kind regards,

Alexander Wagner
Subject Specialist
Central Library
52425 Juelich

mail : [email protected]
phone: +49 2461 61-1586
Fax  : +49 2461 61-6103
http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/mitarbeiter/fachinformation#wagner


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