[POLL] Cyrus 2.2 virtdomains behavior (Was: global admin without defaultdomain?)

[Oliver Jones]

I vote for the config option.

I'm always in favour of less hard coded behaviour and more configuration
options (with sane defaults). :)

Regards

On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 00:40, Christos Soulios wrote:

> Hi list.
> It would be very helpful if I could choose _only_ one from these 
> options. You see, with current code for virtual domains, I faced the 
> following frustrating situation.
> 
> Provided that I have set up two domains foo.com and bar.com in my dns 
> server and that I have given 2 IP addresses to my Cyrus.
> 
> Then a user may connect to the server foo.com and login with the 
> username christos at bar.com.
> 
> Well, this is a pretty uncomfortable situtation, since users may login 
> to different domains from the ones they got connected, which seems a 
> little bit weird to me.
> 
> My opinion is that cyrus should provide an option on how to find out the 
> domain. Also, I understand that current situation is helpful for some 
> admins. For this reason I would suggest having 4 options, which would be 
> something like : none, byuserid, byipaddress, both.
> 
> I think this would be a fair sollution for everyone.
> 
> Christos
> 
> 
> 
> Ken Murchison wrote:
> > 
> > This has to do with the fact that the virtdomains code handles domains 
> > by login id and ip address simultaneously.  If you don't have a fully 
> > qualified user id, the code will do a reverse lookup on the ip address 
> > of the local NIC and add that domain.  The only way to prevent the 
> > appending of the domain is by setting a default domain.
> > 
> > I could probably fix this by changing the code to only do virtdomains by 
> >  one mechanism at a time, NOT both.  Since the 2.2 code recently added 
> > the ability to have enumerated config options, I could change the 
> > virtdomains option to be a tri-state variable, something like [ off, 
> > byuserid, byipaddress ].  As long as nobody is depending on the current 
> > behavior, I have no problem changing this.  Of course, if people do need 
> > the current bevavior, I could add a fourth state to handle this.
> > 
> > I'd like to get some feedback from those of you that have been using the 
> > virtdomains code before I go and make any changes.
> > 
> > Happy Holidays,
> > Ken

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