[Yanel-dev] [Bug 8094] New: Alias is not maintained when changed in user management

[Cedric Staub]

Hello out there

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:24:52AM +0100, bugzilla at wyona.com wrote:
> When you edit the email address of a user, it's updated in the user xml but not
> in the alias! This means we create an inconsistency.

That fits the semantics of the security library because an alias does
not have to be an email and the users email does not have to be an
alias. That's why the security lib doesn't change the alias.

Possible solutions to this problem:
 - Change the user-mgmt resource in Yanel such that it exposes and
   allows you to modify the aliases for each user. Currently it doesn't
   do that, because the aliasing functionality is somewhat new.
 - Change the semantics of the security lib such that an email is always
   an alias (but what if some people don't want that?).

I'm personally in favor of the first solution because I think it makes
sense to expose the aliasing functionality of the security lib to the
user management interface anyway (and it would solve the problem).

Cheers,
Cedric