Richard Megginson wrote: > Darren Fulton wrote: > >> I have an in production application at our office (Web Calendar) that I >> am migrating to LDAP authentication using FDS from application internal >> authentication. >> Some of the users in the old program have user id's of $firstname and >> they don't work because everyone in the ldap server was setup as >> $firstinitial$lasthname. >> I have not been sucessful at changing the User ID's in the application >> from $firstname to $firstinitial$lastname. > Can you configure the search done by the application ? If so, it should be possible to retain the single uid per user, but add a second attribute value with the second name. Then configure the old applications to search on that attribute to find users' DNs.