[ZendTo] Re: Organization requirement

Jules Jules at Zend.To
Wed May 18 14:00:23 BST 2011


Oops, sorry!

On line 81 of /opt/zendto/lib/NSSLDAPAuthenticator.php change 
"strtolower" to "trim".

Many apologies, will be fixed in 4.02.

Jules

On 17/05/2011 16:38, Michael Masse wrote:
> Jules,
> This works great and thank you so much for such a fast response, but 
> there's one tiny nit pick problem with it.    It converts whatever I 
> put within quotes to all lower case.  Since an organization name is 
> typically a proper noun, capitalization matters in 
> this instance.   Any chance of it keeping whatever case is specified 
> in the config file?
> -Mike
>
>
> >>> On 5/16/2011 at 5:49 AM, in message <4DD10134.9000207 at Zend.To>, 
> Jules <Jules at zend.to> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> You need to add this setting (with an appropriate value) to your 
> preferences.php file:
>   'authLDAPOrganization'  => 'My Organization',
> and then just replace your /opt/zendto/lib/NSSLDAPAuthenticator.php 
> with the (gunzipped) attached file. Make sure it's globally readable:
>     chmod a+r /opt/zendto/lib/NSSLDAP*
> And then try to log in. If it can read the organization from your LDAP 
> directory attributes, then it will. But if that produces nothing it 
> will use the "authLDAPOrganization" setting instead.
>
> Please let me know how you get on.
>
> Sorry I didn't get it to you over the weekend, a few things cropped up 
> which I had to attend to (people win over computers every time! :-)
>
> Cheers!
> Jules.
>
> On 14/05/2011 15:36, Mike Masse wrote:
>> I would certainly be most willing to test for LDAP.
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>>
>> On 5/14/2011 8:47 AM, Jules wrote:
>>> Not yet, no, that was only for IMAP.
>>> Once someone can confirm that it does what they need in IMAP, I'll 
>>> add the same to LDAP.
>>>
>>> But if you're willing to test it for LDAP, then give me a few 
>>> minutes (new Lion preview to install first!).
>>>
>>> Jules.
>>>
>>> On 14/05/2011 14:29, Michael Masse wrote:
>>>> 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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