Bug 320751: LDAP: Ability to have Bugzilla use the LDAP username directly as the Bugzilla username

Patch By guillomovitch@zarb.org r=mkanat, a=myk

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/docs/en/xml/installation.xml b/docs/en/xml/installation.xml
index 72fb19690..604d15a6f 100644
--- a/docs/en/xml/installation.xml
+++ b/docs/en/xml/installation.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!-- <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"> -->
-<!-- $Id: installation.xml,v 1.118 2008/04/04 06:47:48 lpsolit%gmail.com Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: installation.xml,v 1.119 2008/04/04 06:47:49 mkanat%bugzilla.org Exp $ -->
 <chapter id="installing-bugzilla">
   <title>Installing Bugzilla</title>
 
@@ -1320,16 +1320,18 @@ c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -xc:\bugzilla -wT "%s" %s
       you need to deal with user ID (e.g assigning a bug) use the email
       address. The LDAP authentication builds on top of this scheme, rather
       than replacing it. The initial log in is done with a username and
-      password for the LDAP directory. This then fetches the email address
-      from LDAP and authenticates seamlessly in the standard Bugzilla
-      authentication scheme using this email address. If an account for this
-      address already exists in your Bugzilla system, it will log in to that
-      account. If no account for that email address exists, one is created at
-      the time of login. (In this case, Bugzilla will attempt to use the
-      "displayName" or "cn" attribute to determine the user's full name.)
-      After authentication, all other user-related tasks are still handled by
-      email address, not LDAP username. You still assign bugs by email
-      address, query on users by email address, etc.
+      password for the LDAP directory. Bugzilla tries to bind to LDAP using
+      those credentials, and if successful, try to map this account to a
+      Bugzilla account. If a  LDAP mail attribute is defined, the value of this
+      attribute is used, otherwise emailsuffix parameter is appended to LDAP
+      username to form a full email adress. If an account for this address
+      already exists in your Bugzilla system, it will log in to that account.
+      If no account for that email address exists, one is created at the time
+      of login. (In this case, Bugzilla will attempt to use the "displayName"
+      or "cn" attribute to determine the user's full name.) After
+      authentication, all other user-related tasks are still handled by email
+      address, not LDAP username. You still assign bugs by email address, query
+      on users by email address, etc.
       </para>
 
       <caution>