[SAC] Re: create account page

[Frank Warmerdam]

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> Scott - you can change your settings here:
> https://www.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/auth/ldap_edit_user.py
> 
> Frank,
> Scott is talking about how his name appears in the Moodle example.  I 
> matched the LDAP "common name" attribute to the common name property in 
> the moodle profile.  There is a cn and ln (last name) attribute in the 
> directory, which I thought made sense to use.  Having full name put into 
> the cn attribute is kind weird, we cannot then, programmatically know 
> what their first and last names are.  Can you change the new user form 
> to say "Given Name" instead?  I think it will be much more useful in the 
> long run.

Tyler,

All the "cn" values were set to the full name in the LDAP server when
it was pre-populated by Shawn in January.  I've just kept the pattern.
I'm not unwilling to change, but I think it should be discussed somewhat
more widely first (cc:ing SAC for that).

Best regards,

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