Re: [Phpgroupware-users] users & groups

[Dave Hall]

Hey Marco,

Marco Gaiarin <address@hidden> wrote:

> Mandi! jef peeraer
>  In chel di` si favelave...
> 
> > i installed the latest version, which is 0.9.14.6. My user and 
> group accounts 
> > are located in an ldap database. I can see all my users in 
> phpgroupware, 
> > that's ok. I can't see the primary group a user belongs too when 
> i edit a 
> > user. This is already defined in ldap, but doesn't show up in the 
> selection 
> > list. i have to manually select it for each user. is this normal 
> behaviour or 
> > is it a bug ?
> 
> AFAI've experimented with phpgw and LDAP, there's some inconsistencies
> that i hope will be solved in the next 0.9.16 release.
> 
> One is that phpgw use the same numberspace for user and group, so if
> you have a user with UID=1001 and a group with GID=1001 expect some
> strange things to happen...
> 
> The other are that phpgw seems does not use at all the ``membership''
> of user in group of LDAP, so you have to define the membership in LDAP
> (via the memberUid field, for me) and redefine it in phpgw via the
> administration application, they are saved on acl tables.
> 
> 
> I've started using phpgw and ldap, so i've build my user and group 
> withthis limitation, but, like you, i'll hope these issue will be 
> solved in
> the upcoming release. ;)
> 

Do you have any patches we could include?  I also want LDAP to work a
little better in 16.

Cheers

Dave

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