[Freeipa-users] Creating new users with one name

[Rob Crittenden]

Steven Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One thing and its sort of strange but when you so to create a new user you have assumed that the user has both a forename and a surname so this is compulsory.
>
> This isn't always the case, we have users who have one name and its not their forename or their surname and that's legal, at least here in NZ.
>
> Should I raise this as a "bug"?
>
> I'm not sure what happens when we win-sync from AD in such cases as that is a single occupied field that gets replicated, and a blank for one will this be OK?

It is a requirement of the person objectClass.

Feel free to open a bug.

rob