[phpGroupWare-users] Re: phpGW for Unix users managed by LDAP

[Emanuel Ziegler]

Wow that were fast and comprehensive replys!

Ok, I'll try to answer both replys in this post. I run php4 since I don't see 
the need to change to php5.

1) eMail: I don't really understand the question about the login format so I'll 
just guess. It is simply the username without any domain. The settings are: 
server type "IMAPS", IMAP server type "Cyrus or Courier", login type 
"standard", the domain is set to our institute's domain.

I tried to deactivate the user's settings and indeed the "GeekBar" shows "did 
connect: [yes (0)]" the first time. After reloading the page it changes to "did 
connect: [no]" so I'm not sure it works or not.

2) Password: I'm looking forward to that patch - but it's not urgent since I 
want to evaluate phpGroupWare a little longer before opening it to our users.

3) LDAP: I created a new user, entered that one as root user and it still works 
:)

However, the ldaps:// trick doesn't work for me since I don't use SSL but TLS 
encryption which runs via ldap protocol (ldaps is deprecated).

4) Groups: I think using the posix groups would be a good idea since the 
hierarchy is already set up and I don't want to do that again. In the meantime 
I'll live with the "Default" group, I guess. Since file management is has to be 
independent, the UIDs and GIDs don't matter.

5) Filemanager: One could solve this problem with a CGI-program that runs as 
SUID, but I guess this would introduce huge security holes (what if it is not 
accessible from apache2, but from phpgw - is that possible).

Anyway, the filemanager does not work at all (for the user eziegler it insists 
on the path /home/eziegler which cannot be created - can I change this 
setting?) Maybe I have to select "Do you want to manage home directories?" in 
the "If you use LDAP" section to "yes", but I don't want to store the 
information in LDAP, I just want it to use the prefix value given below.

Thanks,
    Emanuel
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