Richard Megginson wrote:
Darren Fulton wrote:
> I have an in production application at our office (Web Calendar) that I
> am migrating to LDAP authentication using FDS from application internal
> authentication.
> Some of the users in the old program have user id's of $firstname and
> they don't work because everyone in the ldap server was setup as
> $firstinitial$lasthname.
> I have not been sucessful at changing the User ID's in the application
> from $firstname to $firstinitial$lastname.
Can you configure the search done by the application ?
If so, it should be possible to retain the single uid per user,
but add a second attribute value with the second name.
Then configure the old applications to search on that attribute
to find users' DNs.