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
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