[Freeipa-users] ipa impressions and more questions

[Ivan Levchenko]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> We have something very limited currently.
>
> In the record cn=ipaconfig you can add the attribute ipacustomfields.
>
> This attribute takes the format (field1 $ field2 $ field3 ...)
>
> Field is a comma-separated value and is made up of:
>  label: The label displayed to the user
>  field: the attribute name
>  required: true/false
>
> So something like: See Also, seeAlso, false $ Country, c, true
>
> Be careful when adding attributes that have additional objectClass
> requirements. If you do this then you'll need to also update
> ipaUserObjectClasses (which you can do in the UI) to include this for new
> users. For existing users you will need to manually add the new objectclass
> to them.
>
> These new fields will then get tacked onto the end of the User pages in the
> UI.
>
> rob
>
Great! This is exactly what I needed!

Of course it would be great to get this whole process in the UI, but
even as it is its good enough.

IPA is really making working with accounts a lot easier in the long
run.. thanks guys!

Ivan