topic Using mail attribute for LDAP authentication in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-mail-attribute-for-ldap-authentication/m-p/216322#M169452 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I wanted to know if there was a way to allow the mail attribute in LDAP to be used as a username for authentication in Alfresco.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We have successfully logged in using the uid as the username.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The current setup is:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ldap.authentication.userNameFormat=</SPAN><STRONG>uid</STRONG><SPAN>\=%s,o\=example.com,o\=hosting,dc\=example,dc\=local</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We want the setup to be:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ldap.authentication.userNameFormat=</SPAN><STRONG>mail</STRONG><SPAN>\=%s,o\=example.com,o\=hosting,dc\=example,dc\=local</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>But it does not work. No error messages in the log, just login failed.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:08:57 GMT dtenney 2009-09-09T15:08:57Z Using mail attribute for LDAP authentication https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-mail-attribute-for-ldap-authentication/m-p/216322#M169452 I wanted to know if there was a way to allow the mail attribute in LDAP to be used as a username for authentication in Alfresco.We have successfully logged in using the uid as the username.The current setup is:ldap.authentication.userNameFormat=uid\=%s,o\=example.com,o\=hosting,dc\=example,dc\=local Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:08:57 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-mail-attribute-for-ldap-authentication/m-p/216322#M169452 dtenney 2009-09-09T15:08:57Z Re: Using mail attribute for LDAP authentication https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-mail-attribute-for-ldap-authentication/m-p/216323#M169453 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Currently the LDAPAuthenticationComponent requires the user ID attribute to be part of the DN and for the DN to have a fixed format.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>But when I finally get around to fixing this bug</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-2782" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-2782</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We'll support search-based resolution of the user DN from the user ID attribute. Could be soon. Until then, it's not going to work.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:50:54 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-mail-attribute-for-ldap-authentication/m-p/216323#M169453 dward 2009-09-09T16:50:54Z