[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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