[Fedora-directory-users] How can I create a User ID alias?

[Richard Megginson]

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.

>Thank you.
>
>Darren
>
>
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