142497 - Default domain extensions

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: User Accounts, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Jouni Heikniemi]

There should be a possibility to define a default domain extension for user
accounts which would be used if nothing else was specified. Note that this is
not the same as current domain suffix option, since that _forces_ use of the
specified suffix.

If I entered a partial address ("jouni"), it would append the default domain to
the user account wherever I enter it, for example on cc lists, reassignments,
queries and so on. In buglist, show_bug and similar instances the default domain
could be stripped from the accounts. 

This would be particularly useful on systems where the vast majority of the
people are within a single organization but with a few contractors outside it.

Comment 1

[Jouni Heikniemi]

*** Bug 143698 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Todd Stansell]

During our upgrade to 2.16.2 a couple weeks ago, I made this exact change.  I 
added a defaultlogindomain parameter that, when set, is appended to any field 
that has a "local" address specified.  I also added a useNIS parameter that, 
when set, would authenticate users matching the defaultlogindomain setting 
against NIS instead of the password stored in the database, but that's another 
enhancement.  I'll see if I can get a patch of my defaultlogindomain changes.

Todd

Comment 3

[Jouni Heikniemi]

[e-mail], do you have that patch? It probably won't be usable directly,
but it would be interesting to see how much work you had to do.

Comment 4

[Frédéric Buclin]

This is useless now that we have autocompletion for all user fields.