[Samba] samba-tool user add - weird resulting
Rowland Penny
rpenny at samba.org
Wed Aug 14 07:48:51 UTC 2024
On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 09:24:03 +0200
Franta Hanzlik via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> When creating AD user using 'samba-tool user add <username> ...',
> there are switches for some human name parts specification:
> --surname=SURNAME User's surname
> --given-name=GIVEN_NAME User's given name
> --initials=INITIALS User's initials
>
> and samba-tool (or Samba daemon itself?) assembles other (LDB)
> attributes from them:
>
> dn : as "$GIVEN_NAME $INITIALS $SURNAME,OU=...,DC=..."
> displayName : as "$GIVEN_NAME $INITIALS $SURNAME"
> name : as "$GIVEN_NAME $INITIALS $SURNAME"
>
> Despite that the insertion of initials into any of the derived
> attributes seems stupid to me, would like to have the values of
> these attributes different.
A Samba AD DC tries its best to emulate what a Windows DC does and this
is what a Windows DC does if you supply the users initials. I you do
not want the user accounts created with the initials, then do not
supply them.
> Is this somehow possible?
> Doesn't samba-tool have any hidden switches for this?
No, you an see all the switches with 'samba-tool used add --help'
Rowland
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