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<!-- <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"> -->
-<!-- $Id: installation.xml,v 1.118 2006/04/30 20:35:15 lpsolit%gmail.com Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: installation.xml,v 1.119 2006/05/30 21:17:34 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>