Jeff Clowser wrote: > 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. >>> >>> Question: Is there a way that I can make aliases in FDS such that User >>> ID james equals User ID jjones? If so, how can I do it? >>> >>> >> FDS does not support LDAP aliases. However, you can have a single >> entry with two different uid attributes - uid is a multi-valued >> attribute. This will allow you to do an LDAP search for uid=james or >> uid=jjones and get the same entry. If you want to use uid as the >> naming attribute for the DN, you will just have to pick one of the >> values. >> > Be careful with this, though - even though LDAP allows/defines uid to > be multivalued, I have seen some apps that expect uid to be single > valued, and choke or give unexpected results on users that are not. > You'll only know, though, by trying it out and seeing if something > breaks. What is the web calendar app you are using? Are you using > any other apps that use your FDS? > > - Jeff > > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users Hello, The web calendar is "Web Calendar" ( http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php ) and I'm currently authenticating using http basic auth, over SSL using mod_ldap in Apache. User authenticates as jjones and if there is a webcal user by the name of jjones, it pulls up his calendar. My only problem was that jjones (in this case) doesn't have a calendar, but user james does. I wanted it to recognize that jjones was james and it would pull up the calendar. Adding a second User ID for that user doesn't seem to accomplish my goal in this case, by may help out in the future. Thanks for the help. Darren
