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

[Martin Kosek]

On 02/06/2014 01:12 PM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
> 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.

Note that you do not need to add this cli_name part of it equals the actual
attribute name. cli_name defaults to attribute name.

> 
>>>              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.

It seems to me that current employeeNumber attribute present in inetorgperson
objectClass is ok for this use case. If yes, then no schema change is needed.

Martin