[Samba] samba-tool user add - weird resulting

[Franta Hanzlik]

Dne 2024.08.14 09:48, Rowland Penny via samba napsal:
> 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
-- 
Rowland, thank you for response.
But I still think there's nothing stopping Samba from being better
than Windows at this, and introducing some switches like
   --displayname
   --commonname
   --name
   --exclude-initials-in-dn
or something similar.

After all, what are the various attributes displayName/cn/name for, if
they cannot be entered when creating a user.
--
Franta Hanzlík

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