#28 Alternate cn based dn style

[Adam Tauno Williams]

We use dn's for users like cn=Adam
William,ou=People,dc=Whitemice,dc=Org, where Directory
Administor makes dn's like uid=adam,ou=People,etc...
We do this because we have many people in our directory
(inetOrgPerson, etc..) that do not have accounts.
Accounts are given to people, and removed, but the
person may remain.

We hack DA by editing newuser.c like:
gtk_entry_set_text (GTK_ENTRY (lookup_widget (window,
"uidnumber")), uid);
>> dn =
>> g_strconcat ("cn=",
>> gtk_entry_get_text (GTK_ENTRY
>> (lookup_widget
>> (window,
"cn"))), ",", basedn, NULL);
g_print ("Base DN for user creation: %s\n", basedn);
newuser =

just replacing "uid" with "cn". It would be very nice
if this were a preference option per server. "cn vs.
uid dn style"

My e-mail is awilliam@whitemice.org

[Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)]

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Well, your request is very reasonable. It's been a couple
of weeks I've ben thinking of letting DA add persons which
aren't users, and your hack is currently the most expedite
way to do so. I'm thinking on how to provide this best, in
order to let DA grow and respect people's directory wishes.

[Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)]

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I'll work something out in the weekend