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POST /api/directory/test takes a saved directory's id, an address and
optionally a password, and answers whether the directory opened, what a
recipient lookup of the address finds (account or group, with its
aliases, groups and name), and whether the password signs in. A wrong
password is told apart from a directory that can't be reached or is set
up wrong.
It calls the directory itself, below the sign-in path: a test never
creates or updates an account, never counts toward the sign-in ban and
doesn't depend on which domains use the directory. A password hash a
directory returns is never sent back. OIDC directories report their
discovered issuer; they take no passwords.
For server-level administrators with directory update permission. The
console's guided directory setup uses it to test a real person before
any domain is switched over.
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