Logging in with LDAP->PAM email

[Leon Bartle]

I want my users to be able to log into the webui (and probably the bconsole at some point) using their email address.

I have successfully set up LDAP login into the webui using the GID. Now mapping the email to the linux username, I can change it to require an email. 

Running pamtester bareos leon.l...@domain.com authenticate

is successful and authenticates properly. 

But as a user resource in the director is required, I am stuck. The "Name" in User is of datatype "NAME", which implicitly prohibits the "@" character. Because of this, I cannot create a user resource, with the following error:

ERROR in lib/res.cc:413 Config error: Illegal character "@" in name.

Any ideas from here how to get this done? (Or if it is even possible?)

Have a nice day!