RFC: Detaching user name from email, LDAP and Single-Signon

[Joel Peshkin]

Christian Robottom Reis wrote:

>>This would cover normal user login, cases where a user known to the auth 
>>system first logs into bugzilla, and cases where a user is created in 
>>bugzilla before the first time they ever log in themselves.
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>Yeah, it sounds okay. I keep trying to fit NIS into the picture
>conceptually because it's a simple way to do a reality-check. From NIS
>we could grab the realname and identifier (which matches email) quite
>easily for this; writing the NIS module wouldn't actually be half as
>hard.
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Actually, if you use the perl getpwent() funcion, NIS is the same as 
local unix auth.  In both cases, the loginid (email address, if you add 
a suffix or send it to the local user) and realname can be grabbed from 
the line and the unix userid would persist even through a change of 
loginid and realname.