[SAC] Re: create account page

[shawn barnes]

There is a firstname attribute but, it is called givenName.


The minimal attributes that were originally populated are,

  givenName -> firstname
  sn        -> lastname
  cn        -> firstname lastname
  mail      -> email
  uid
  userPassword

shawn

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> 
> On 24-Jul-07, at 8:56 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> No problem, I understand.
> 
> I think "common name" (cn) should mean "first name" not "full name".  In
> some of the apps that are calling from LDAP we get stuck in a pickle
> because we actually have no first name attribute to populate user
> profiles with.  I don't see any reason to have a full name attribute -
> does anyone else?
> 
> Tyler
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