[Freeipa-devel] default email is user at foo.bar in latest build

[Rob Crittenden]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 13:01 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Simo Sorce wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:21 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>>> David O'Brien wrote:
>>>>> I've never come across this before.
>>>>>
>>>>> Normally when I add a user the default email address is user at mydomain.com
>>>>>
>>>>> In the latest build, this has become user at foo.bar
>>>>>
>>>>> The only place I remember seeing foo.bar was in /etc/ipa/ipa.conf but
>>>>> this is still configured the way it was before. Where is this value
>>>>> coming from?
>>>>>
>>>> It comes from a call to ipa.config.config.default_realm (which is 
>>>> generated from /etc/ipa/ipa.conf). I'm not sure why something would have 
>>>> changed unless we aren't creating /etc/ipa/ipa.conf anymore.
>>>>
>>>> Simo, any ideas?
>>> No, and the default_realm should really come from a call to the krb
>>> libs.
>>> In any case I really think we should remove that email thing. In most
>>> cases it is wrong to assume that the realm is the same as the email
>>> address.
>>>
>>> In many companies I've seen things like this:
>>> Realm: corp.company.com
>>> Username: foo
>>> Mail: foo.bar at company.com
>>>
>>> we would end up by default with foo at corp.company.com and in all honesty
>>> I am not sure why we would even propose an email address by default (of
>>> course it is ok to have an attribute to host it, I am talking defaults
>>> here) as we don't tie in a mail server.
>> To make adding users easier.
> 
> Yes but then you need to provide a way to specify how to construct it.
> 
>>  I think this attribute should be in the 
>> ipaConfig entry.
> 
> I agree, can you make it configurable?
> 
> Simo.
> 

Yes, on the perhaps ill-named IPA Policy page.

rob
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