[Samba] inetOrgPerson vs. sambaSidEntry for Computer accounts in LDAP

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Feb 12 18:47:30 GMT 2004


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Spencer wrote:
| I am looking at my computer accounts that were created using
| smbldap-useradd.pl -w workstationname. And I see the following
| objectClasses:
| top
| inetOrgPerson
| posixAccount
| sambaSamAccount
|
| I understand I need one structural objectClass, but don't
| understand why  inetOrgPerson is being used.  Couldn't I
| use sambaSidEntry instead?   sambaSidEntry is structural, and
| only requires sambaSID.

it is by convention since a user normally has other
attributes that are desiured such as email, telephone number,
etc...




cheers, jerry
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