From 3891b63a1eb52076337885487f251a10580a4a85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frédéric Buclin Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 18:50:13 +0200 Subject: Bug 218917 - Allow the login name to be different from the email address Original patch by Gervase Markham r=gerv a=dkl --- docs/en/rst/administering/parameters.rst | 17 ++--------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/en/rst/administering/parameters.rst') diff --git a/docs/en/rst/administering/parameters.rst b/docs/en/rst/administering/parameters.rst index 0d2d18029..5835d654f 100644 --- a/docs/en/rst/administering/parameters.rst +++ b/docs/en/rst/administering/parameters.rst @@ -169,12 +169,6 @@ requirelogin If this option is set, all access to the system beyond the front page will require a login. No anonymous users will be permitted. -webservice_email_filter - Filter email addresses returned by the WebService API depending on if the - user is logged in or not. This works similarly to how the web UI currently - filters email addresses. If requirelogin is enabled, then this parameter - has no effect as users must be logged in to use Bugzilla anyway. - emailregexp Defines the regular expression used to validate email addresses used for login names. The default attempts to match fully qualified email addresses @@ -186,12 +180,6 @@ emailregexpdesc This description is shown to the user to explain which email addresses are allowed by the :param:`emailregexp` param. -emailsuffix - This is a string to append to any email addresses when actually sending mail - to that address. It is useful if you have changed the :param:`emailregexp` - param to only allow local usernames, but you want the mail to be delivered - to username\@my.local.hostname. - createemailregexp This defines the (case-insensitive) regexp to use for email addresses that are permitted to self-register. The default (:paramval:`.*`) permits any @@ -499,9 +487,8 @@ 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. Bugzilla tries to bind to LDAP using those credentials and, if successful, tries to map this account to a -Bugzilla account. If an LDAP mail attribute is defined, the value of this -attribute is used; otherwise, the :param:`emailsuffix` parameter is appended to -the LDAP username to form a full email address. If an account for this address +Bugzilla account. An LDAP mail attribute must be defined. +If an account for this address already exists in the Bugzilla installation, 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" -- cgit v1.2.3-24-g4f1b