[Citadel Development] Re: Administrator login when using Active Directory

2012-07-23 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
  Fri Jul 20 2012 03:29:47 AM EDT from dothebart @ Uncensored Subject: Re: Administrator login when using Active Directory you have to re-run setup, and specify one of your AD users. On next login he will gain aide rights.   Thanks dothebart, that got me most of the way there.   The next bit

[Citadel Development] Re: Administrator login when using Active Directory

2012-07-23 Thread dothebart
  Sun Jul 22 2012 21:43:39 EDT from Lindsay Mathieson @ Uncensored Subject: Re: Administrator login when using Active Directory   Fri Jul 20 2012 03:29:47 AM EDT from dothebart @ Uncensored Subject: Re: Administrator login when using Active Directory you have to re-run setup, and specify on

[Citadel Development] Re: Administrator login when using Active Directory

2012-07-23 Thread the_mgt
  Mon Jul 23 2012 11:11:52 CEST from dothebart @ Uncensored Subject: Re: Administrator login when using Active Directory     The next bit took me a while to figure out and I find it a bit puzzling. I was specifying my login name ("lindsay") as the admin, which wasn't working - I had to speci

[Citadel Development] Re: Administrator login when using Active Directory

2012-07-23 Thread dothebart
  Mon Jul 23 2012 15:36:20 EDTfrom the_mgt @ Uncensored Subject: Re: Administrator login when using Active Directory Mon Jul 23 2012 11:11:52 CESTfrom dothebart @ Uncensored Subject: Re: Administrator login when using Active Directory  hm, if Lindsay is right, this is probably not a good idea

[Citadel Development] Re: Administrator login when using Active Directory

2012-07-28 Thread the_mgt
  isn' t the behaviour wrong in first place? So wouldn't changing it be better than documenting it? At least it is totally against any intuition. And yes, changing it to the logon name would be the better way to solving it. Ig, what do you think?

[Citadel Development] Re: Administrator login when using Active Directory

2012-07-28 Thread IGnatius T Foobar
I think that this particular workflow is confusing but I'm not yet aware of a good way to change it. In an Active Directory environment perhaps we could search to determine whether the user is a member of the "Administrators" or "Domain Admins" groups, and make any such user a Citadel admin as

[Citadel Development] Re: Administrator login when using Active Directory

2012-07-28 Thread the_mgt
The problem is not one of groupmembership, although I find the idea of mapping AD groups to certain citadel user levels attractive. The scenario goes like this: On a fresh AD install, you have the Administrator user which has the logonname "Adminstrator" (under Account tab). The other fields unde

[Citadel Development] Re: Administrator login when using Active Directory

2012-07-31 Thread IGnatius T Foobar
Yes, I do see the problem. Now we have to find an elegant way to address it. The concept of "name your admin" doesn't seem to fit well with LDAP. Perhaps we should go with the group thing. Perhaps if the authentication mode is AD then we should skip that entirely and simply use group membership