change distinguished name format in OpenLDAP

ldap alfresco distinguishedname
Indio picture Indio · May 16, 2012 · Viewed 14.5k times · Source

i have the following problem: i have installed and OpenLDAP server in which in the people/users tree the distinguished name have the following format:

Distinguished Name: cn=Luigi Rossi,ou=people,dc=prisma,dc=local

The problem is i wish to replace it using the uid (a.k.a. the account username) instead of the CN in order to have something like this

Distinguished Name: uid=lrossi,ou=people,dc=prisma,dc=local

I need this because i'm configuring ldap authentication for Alfresco Community 4.0.d and it need the username

ldap.authentication.userNameFormat=uid=%s,ou=people,dc=prisma,dc=local

Any help?

Answer

SirDice picture SirDice · Mar 6, 2015

It's an old post but I ran into this myself. The answer was actually pretty simple. If you're using phpldapadmin to create accounts, you need to edit the posixAccount template. Look for the <rdn></rdn> tags. Replace the cn with uid and save. Your accounts will now be created with a DN in the "uid=%s,dc=example,dc=com" form instead of "cn=%s,dc=example,dc=com"

http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Templates#Template_Header_Configuration

Related questions

What are the differences between LDAP and Active Directory?

What are the differences between LDAP and Active Directory?

Read More
What are CN, OU, DC in an LDAP search?

I have a search query in LDAP like this. What exactly does this query mean? ("CN=Dev-India,OU=Distribution Groups,DC=gp,DC=gl,DC=google,DC=com");

Read More
How to write LDAP query to test if user is member of a group?

I want to write an LDAP query which tests whether a user (sAMAccountName) is a member of a particular group. Is it possible to do that so that I get either 0 or 1 result records? I guess I can get all …

Read More