RE: Usernames vs. OU's

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

Outstanding!

Thanks, Quanah! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [mailto:quanah@stanford.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 12:11 PM
To: Hutchins, Mike; openldap
Subject: RE: Usernames vs. OU's



--On Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:54 AM -0600 "Hutchins, Mike" 
<mike.hutchins@amr.net> wrote:

> 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.

We use the CN/DC naming convention rather than OU/O.

So our account entries look like:

uid=quanah,cn=accounts,dc=stanford,dc=edu

And yes, people just use UID to log in with.

<http://www.stanford.edu/services/directory/posix/>


--Quanah


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