[Freeipa-users] HOW to Add employeenumber to user easily? there is account object with emoployee number ttribute

[Petr Viktorin]

On 02/06/2014 01:08 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 02/06/2014 05:59 AM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>> On 02/06/2014 09:31 AM, barrykfl at gmail.com wrote:
>>> Hi:
>>>
>>> I can make it show on ldap browser or the ui but finding where to add it
>>> in command base.
>>>
>>> ipa  user-mod  ---employeenumber no such parameter.
>>
>> You can use setattr where we don't provide specialized CLI arguments.
>> Also note that employeenumber won't show in the default output; you'll
>> want to use --all to retrieve all the attributes.
>> ipa user-mod somerandomuser --setattr=employeenumber=1234 --all
>> ipa user-show somerandomuser --all
>>
>>
>> To add this to the CLI, you would need to modify the user object in
>> your plugin. Something like:
>>
>> from ipalib.plugins import user
>> from ipalib.parameters import Str
>>
>> user.takes_params = user.takes_params + (
>>          Str('employeenumber',
>>              cli_name='first',
>
> did you mean
>
> cli_name='employeenumber'
>
>
> ?
> Copy paste?

Right, sorry for the mistake.

>>              label=_('Employee number'),
>>          ),
>> )
>>
>>> Moreover can i change the attribute just by name and make use of it.
>>>
>>> E.g. i found car license no really useful for staff so i want to change
>>> the label to staff id card number
>>
>> You should ideally create a new LDAP attribute for this, but the label
>> is defined in ipalib.plugins.user.
>>
>
>


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