[ZendTo] Re: Organization requirement

Michael Masse mrm at medicine.wisc.edu
Sat May 14 14:29:26 BST 2011


Will this work for if we use LDAP authentication?

-Mike

On 5/14/2011 8:18 AM, Jules wrote:
> If you add this setting to your preferences.php file:
>   'authIMAPOrganization' => 'University of Southampton',
> (obviously with your own organisation name in there!)
> and apply the attached patch with
>   cd /opt/zendto/lib && patch -p0 < /tmp/imaporg.patch
> and then try it again, I hope it now works better.
>
> Please let me know if it behaves how you want.
>
> Jules.
>
> On 13/05/2011 22:20, Chris Barber wrote:
>> I too have had users ask me to remove that option. You are right, 
>> logged in users know who they belong to. I would say it would be best 
>> if thre was a configuration option in zendto.conf that would allow us 
>> to specify the organization, or leave it has an option for users to 
>> fill in.
>>
>> In one case of mine, we are using IMAP authentication and the IMAP 
>> server auto fills this in. However it fills in the domain name and 
>> not the actual org name. I think this is the fault of the IMAP server 
>> but we can't adjust that so the users are always fixing the org name 
>> for each dropoff or request.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: zendto-bounces at zend.to [mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to] On 
>> Behalf Of Mike Masse
>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 4:42 PM
>> To: zendto at zend.to
>> Subject: [ZendTo] Organization requirement
>>
>> I can't find anything in either configuration file that would allow 
>> me to turn off the requirement to type in an organization when a 
>> logged in
>> user is trying to upload a file.    All of my logged in users are from
>> the same organization.   They all know what organization they all belong
>> to.   There's no point in them having to type it in every time.   It
>> makes sense for non logged in users, but not logged in.    How can I
>> remove that requirement?
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>>
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> Jules
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