[389-users] Enable posix attributes via LDAP

[Rich Megginson]

On 05/16/2013 06:06 PM, Jonathan Vaughn wrote:
> We're trying to create accounts (with the posixaccount objectclass and 
> so forth) via LDAP, and while we can add the objectclasses and set the 
> attributes without error, the attributes for posixaccount don't show 
> up on subsequent LDAP queries. Looking at the entry via the 389 
> Console I see that the values were set correctly but the checkbox for 
> 'Enable Posix User Attributes' is unechecked - I had thought checking 
> this merely added the relevant objectclass but apparently there's some 
> other special magic occuring.
>
> How can we "enable" these attributes (so that we can than retrieve 
> them via LDAP later) via LDAP ? Manually going in via the console and 
> "enabling" them via the checkbox for every new account is not a 
> "solution".

Create a user in the console which you have done the 'Enable Posix User 
Attributes' - do an ldapsearch to see what that LDIF looks like - 
compare that with your script or LDIF that you are using to automate.
>
>
> --
> 389 users mailing list
> 389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20130516/543e00df/attachment.html>