[Freeipa-users] Add extra infofield to user

[Dmitri Pal]

On 11/24/2014 01:27 PM, Matt . wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to make sure I have a primary one which is mail, the other ones
> should not matter, but I think it's wiser to have it like I know what
> is where.
>
> The reason why I need to is because I'm using Kolab which needs at
> least a primary mail attribute.

The point is that you can have the primary one in one attribute and then 
the rest in a different multi value attribute.
If for example you use the primary mail as uid and aliases as mail then 
you can solve the problem. But that means your logn names will be mails.
This might be fine might not. May be you use some other attribute to 
store primary mail.
Here is the pointer on how to do it: 
http://www.freeipa.org/page/HowTo/Add_a_new_attribute

>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
>
> 2014-11-24 19:22 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com>:
>> On 11/24/2014 12:42 PM, Matt . wrote:
>>> Hi Dimitri,
>>>
>>> I need to use multiple email adresses, but not under mail, mail needs
>>> to be primary.
>>>
>>> I have seen I can add mailAttribute ?
>>>
>>> I need to have them as field, and the best would be something like
>>> alias1, alias2, aliasX
>>
>> The attributes can be multivalued.
>> Do you need to know which is which? I mean if you have mail1 and mail2 do
>> you need to be sure that mail1 is alias1 and mail2 is alias2 or they are
>> interchangeable and the order does not really matter? Then multivalued
>> attribute would be the way to go.
>>
>> Also there is a concept of attribute subtypes  that might help here.
>>
>> But I would leave to LDAP gurus to chime in on this matter.
>>
>>
>>> Would be doable ?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-11-24 17:51 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com>:
>>>> On 11/24/2014 11:36 AM, Matt . wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I see it's possible to add an extra field to a user by creating a new
>>>>> userobjectclass.
>>>>>
>>>>> The issue is that this field is not yet @ the user, but can we create it
>>>>> here ?
>>>>>
>>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ipalib/plugins/user.py
>>>>>
>>>>> Any direction would be great!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Matt
>>>>>
>>>> You need to extend schema.
>>>> You add new attribute and put it to the object class that is Extensible
>>>> object.
>>>> However it is usually better yo use something that is already in the
>>>> directory server.
>>>>
>>>> What is the contents that you want to add? May be there is already
>>>> something
>>>> you can use.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Dmitri Pal
>>>>
>>>> Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
>>>> Red Hat, Inc.
>>>>
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>>
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>> Thank you,
>> Dmitri Pal
>>
>> Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
>> Red Hat, Inc.
>>


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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.