RE: Usernames vs. OU's

["Hutchins, Mike" <mike.hutchins@amr.net>]

Well, that is what I thought, I just wanted to clarify. Do you guys have
many OU's at stanford? And do people just use uid to log in with. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [mailto:quanah@stanford.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:40 AM
To: Hutchins, Mike; openldap
Subject: Re: Usernames vs. OU's



--On Thursday, August 05, 2004 10:43 AM -0600 "Hutchins, Mike" 
<mike.hutchins@amr.net> wrote:

> So, if someone has a uid of bsmith, and their dn is cn=Bill 
> Smith,ou=myou,o=myorg
>
> Will openldap automatically use uid? If it does, I can use a million 
> OU's, if not, then if I use OU's won't the users have to use their 
> entire DN to login?

I assume they would have a UID attribute in their entry, and when they
logged in, the system doing the lookup would look them up by UID, so
they don't need to know their DN.

--Quanah

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