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

[Rob Crittenden]

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. I think this attribute should be in the 
ipaConfig entry.

rob
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