[Samba] Organization of Users in Samba4

[Andrew Martin]

Thanks for the clarification.

Andrew


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthieu Patou" <mat at samba.org>
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:22:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Organization of Users in Samba4
> 
> On 01/23/2013 03:20 PM, Andrew Martin wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am working on migrating from OpenLDAP using the inetOrgPerson
> > schema to Samba4. I would like to continue to provide backwards
> > compatibility with our existing authentication service. In
> > OpenLDAP, users are all contained inside the People organizational
> > unit and referenced by uid, for example:
> > dn: uid=myuser,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
> >
> > When using samba-tool to add a user, it places the user inside of
> > the Users cn, and references the user via its cn entry rather than
> > via uid:
> > dn: cn=myuser,cn=Users,dc=example,dc=com
> >
> > Is there any Samba4 or AD reason why I need to use
> > cn=myuser,cn=Users,dc=example,dc=com for users, or can I import
> > them to uid=username,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com and use this
> > organizational structure instead?
> You can import them in an OU called People but they will have the rdn
> CN
> not UID, why is it like that is because we have to be compatible with
> the other AD implementation.
> 
> Matthieu
> 
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