Storing User ID Numbers in eDirectory
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Oct 2002
Q.
Do you know of a way to store a university ID number of an individual in eDirectory? If you do, did you expand the Schema to do it or did you hide it away somewhere within an existing field?
We are looking to hold the University ID number for each person in their account so it be traced back to a real entity (dead or alive). Any hints will help. We looked at the Description Field, but that shows up in the GroupWise address book.
IDing with Iturbi
A.
Dear IDing: There are several ways of doing this. One is to store the ID number in a custom schema. I created an auxiliary class called ugaPerson. I then created an attribute called ugaID and made it part of ugaPerson. No one (except designated Admin accounts, of course) has rights to that attribute except Read for the user itself.
You could also store the ID in the workforceID attribute. If you are a real workaholic, you could use Schemax to extend your tree's schema to include students' University IDs and birth dates. Schemax assisted in creating a NWAdmin snap-in for the administration of the new attributes.
The attributes can be created through Schema Manager if so desired. They can be accessed via the Others tab in ConsoleOne.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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