[OpenSER-Users] case sensitivity with avp_db_load
Klaus Darilion
klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at
Mon Oct 22 13:34:14 CEST 2007
Christian Schlatter schrieb:
> Jiri Kuthan wrote:
>> At 17:34 19/10/2007, Christian Schlatter wrote:
>>
>>> I don't understand why username at domain is not unique enough?
>>
>> sometimes it is christian at domain.com, sometimes
>> christian.schlatter at domain.com,
>> sometimes it is christian.schlatter at .domain.org or even worse you can
>> take your spouses'
>> name and from day D you begin to be christian.blair at domain.org, and
>> your company
>> gets acquired and you become christian.blair at oracle.com. (Which
>> clients without
>> DNS/SRV can try to reach as christian.blair at sip.oracle.com, and those
>> who pay
>> extra respect to you using capital letters as
>> Christian.Blair at sip.oracle.com)
>>
>> The implication to sanity of data in usrloc, accounting and other
>> tables is immense
>> if you don't bring those to a common denominator. Any change to any
>> name becomes
>> a real pain. The point is names do changes, use of numbers is designed
>> to make
>> relations between tables invariable.
>
> Ok, this makes sense e.g. for foreign key relationships, but isn't this
> more of a database specific thing? We are using our university's LDAP
> based identity management system to manage SIP accounts, and openser
> accesses this system directly through H.350. Our assumption is that the
> SIP proxy shouldn't care about identity management at all, so it doesn't
> care if it is christian.blair at domain.org or christian.blair at oracle.com.
Hi Christian!
Is LDAP case sensitive?
regards
klaus
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