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

[David Boreham]

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.
>
Can you configure the search done by the application ?
If so, it should be possible to retain the single uid per user,
but add a second attribute value with the second name.
Then configure the old applications to search on that attribute
to find users' DNs.