samba 4 schema

[Rowland Penny]

On 22/05/15 22:34, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
> Hello Roger,
>
> Am 22.05.2015 um 16:22 schrieb Roger Chin Garcia:
> > My question is which of these attributes are free, meaning that no
> > application type information in them, my fear is that use either
> > store information such as mac-address, then any application that uses
> > this attribute change my information and miss causing malfunctioning
> > of other services using the mac-address for instance. I have a list:
> > carLicense
> > comment
> > company
> > department
> > departmentNumber
> > description
> > employeeID
> > employeeNumber
> > employeeType
> > homePhone
> > homePostalAddress
> > mail
> > mobile
> > networkAddress
> > ipPhone
> > otherHomePhone
> > otherIpPhone
> > otherMailbox
> > otherMobile
> > otherPager
> > otherTelephone
> > personalTitle
> > postalAddress
> > postalCode
> > roomNumber
> > telephoneNumber
> >
> > all of them are free ?
>
> This depents on what applications you're going to use with AD. I see 
> nothing special in this list, that is required for pure domain logons.
>
> But of course you should not fill attributes with completely different 
> stuff, than it is destined for. Maybe you will have some applications 
> in future, that expect information in an attribute you used for 
> something completely different and run into trouble then.
>
> According to
> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997105%28v=exchg.80%29.aspx
> e. g. networkAddress is used by at least Exchange. If you fill it with 
> something different, you may get with that service.
>
>
> Regards,
> Marc

Hi, I suppose the questions should be, what sort of data do you want to 
store and why can you not extend the schema ?

As Marc as said, you shouldn't use attributes for data other than what 
they were designed for.

Rowland