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

[Martin Kosek]

On 02/06/2014 11:59 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',
>             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.
> 

Petr3, can you please also add a Web UI plugin example how to add this field to
Web UI user's page to Employee section? Just to have the example complete.

Thanks,
Martin