[Freeipa-devel] webUI question

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 09:52 -0500, Karl MacMillan wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 09:17 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 16:06 +1000, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > Rob Crittenden wrote:
> > > > Giuseppe Paterno' wrote:
> > > >> Hi!  Quick question about the webui: why does it requires the e-mail?
> > > >> And what's the "see also" field that is required?
> > > >> A user might be not human and might not have an email associated.
> > > >> ipa-adduser does not require these fields.
> > > >> Cheers,
> > > > 
> > > > Some of it is just experimentation, particularly seeAlso. We want to be
> > > > able to allow users to dynamically add attributes to the new/show/edit
> > > > pages. Two are there now, seeAlso and o. As a demo one is required and
> > > > one isn't.
> > > > 
> > > > As for e-mail, I'm not sure. Simo raised a similar question and we never
> > > > got it answered.
> > > > 
> > > > rob
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > If some users are not going to be human, it makes me wonder, is "People"
> > > and "Person" the correct terminology? Ought we use "User", especially
> > > considering the underlying commands are ipa-adduser, etc.
> > 
> > Yes this is why I lobbied for cn=users and not ou=people :-)
> > 
> 
> I agree with this as well - it matches existing Unix terminology and our
> commandline tools. So I think we should change to cn=users and updated
> the web gui.
> 
> Objections (other than more work)?

Change? It's already cn=users unless someone changed it recently.

Simo.