[Freeipa-users] Non-human users

[John Dennis]

On 02/15/2013 03:57 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 02/15/2013 01:56 PM, John Dennis wrote:
>> On 02/15/2013 03:46 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
>>> This is an interesting use case, it would probably be appropriate to
>>> have a RFE filed to allow to create ipa users marked as 'non-person' so
>>> that they are not assigned the person objectclass.
>>
>> Yes, that addresses one large component of the problem. But the part of the
>> requirement is not to have non-humans show up in every client (e.g. mail
>> clients) that support LDAP directory lookups. That means they have to modify
>> the filter on every client. That's a tall order :-(
>>
>
> Actually, this would cover it.  The LDAP address book searches look for
> attributes that the *person objectclasses provide.  Without them, they are
> excluded.

Interesting, before I replied I checked the filter in my Thunderbird 
client and it's set to (objectclass=*). I don't know if I modified it as 
some point or if it's the default, I assumed it's the default. I suspect 
it's the default filter for many clients.


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