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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/21/2013 04:21 PM, Mitja Mihelič
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<blockquote cite="mid:5214CCF5.8050405@arnes.si" type="cite">After a
bit more time with the Console I changed the order of the
attributes within the textbox(?) that displays the mail attribute
values.
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Please see the attached screenshots.
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Ldapsearch output also confirms the new order. The change seems
persistent, at least for now.
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I do not know what happened in the background.
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Do you think this could also be done from the command line?
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you could do this with ldapmodify by doing <br>
replace: mail<br>
mail: mail1<br>
mail: mail2<br>
mail: mail3.<br>
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But be aware that there is no guarantee that this order does not
change. Although LDAP defines the values of an attribuet as set,
which means NO order, directory server tries to preserve the order
the attribute values have been added. But there may still be some
cases eg in replication where an entry is modified on different
servers and update resolution determines the valid set of values the
order could be lost.<br>
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If you really want to have only one primary mail address, you should
only have one mail value and put the others into
mailalternateaddress ( if your clients can handle that)<br>
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Ludwig<br>
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Regards,
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Mitja
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tel: +386 1 479 8877, fax: +386 1 479 88 78
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On 08/19/2013 05:22 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">On 08/19/2013 09:12 AM, Mitja Mihelič
wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi!
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Out DIT holds user entries that have multiple "mail"
attributes (main email, aliases).
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Here is an example entry:
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dn: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:eduPersonPrincipalName=user@example.com,dc=example,dc=com">eduPersonPrincipalName=user@example.com,dc=example,dc=com</a>
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mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nickname@example.com">nickname@example.com</a>
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mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:user@example.com">user@example.com</a>
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mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:user.name@example.com">user.name@example.com</a>
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Our application (e.g. WordPress) authenticates against the
389DS and also pull some additional attributes, needed by the
application. In this case the email address.
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The application picks up the first mail attribute received and
uses it as the user's email. In this case would be
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nickname@example.com">"nickname@example.com"</a>, which is unwanted. The desired outcome
would be the <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:user.name@example.com">"user.name@example.com"</a> displayed as first.
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By what algorithm/logic do the attributes get sorted? Time
added perhaps?
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Undefined.
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<blockquote type="cite">Is there any way of influencing this
sorting?
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No.
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We were also thinking of putting the "main" email into another
attribute. Which attribute would be appropriate for something
like this?
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There is an attribute 'mailAlternateAddress' - not sure what it
is used for
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Regards,
<br>
Mitja
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