userParameters attribute
Michael Ströder
michael at stroeder.com
Thu Jan 14 08:56:59 MST 2010
tridge at samba.org wrote:
> Following on from our discussion of the userParameters attribute in
> AD, I found that if I set the fields in the 'session' tab for a user
> (eg. the "active session limit") then windows creates a userParameters
> attribute.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> dn: CN=testuser1,CN=Users,DC=vsofs8,DC=com
> userParameters:: Q3R4Q2ZnUHJlc2VudCAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgI
> CAgUAsaCAFDdHhDZmdQcmVzZW5045S15pSx5oiw44GiIAIBQ3R4V0ZQcm9maWxlUGF0aOOAsBgCAU
> N0eFdGSG9tZURpcuOAsCICAUN0eFdGSG9tZURpckRyaXZl44CwEggBQ3R4U2hhZG9344Sw44Cw44C
> w44CwLggBQ3R4TWF4RGlzY29ubmVjdGlvblRpbWXjgaXjjLnjkLDjgLAoCAFDdHhNYXhDb25uZWN0
> aW9uVGltZeOAtOOct+aIseOAsBwIAUN0eE1heElkbGVUaW1l44Gj45yy46Sw44CwIAIBQ3R4V29ya
> 0RpcmVjdG9yeeOAsBgIAUN0eENmZ0ZsYWdzMeOAsOOBpuOYsuOAuCICAUN0eEluaXRpYWxQcm9ncm
> Ft44Cw
>
> With this example it does replicate correctly to Samba with your
> latest changes, but I think it would be worth asking dochelp to see
> how we should parse the attribute. Otherwise we could not offer any
> admin tool to manipulate it.
>
> Once we know the format we'll also know if its ever possible that it
> contains something that won't parse as UTF8.
The only web page I found so far when looking at it a couple of months ago:
http://daduke.org/linux/userparameters.html
AFAIK this attribute can store arbitrary blobs which are application-specific
(e.g. terminal services).
Ciao, Michael.
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