M6 Importing LDAP names from Bluepages
With help from Pravesh and Shawn, I've managed to get my M6 server to
the point where I can begin 'creating' users . i.e. importing users from the User Registry which in my case means Bluepages. I've gotten nowhere using the Web UI to create users but I've done a little better with the RTC client. However, I've noticed that the RTC client will not find any Bluepages people who have a parentheses in their name .... and there's lots of entries like that. My own Bluepages entry looks like this: Ward, David G. (DAVID) I have been unable to import any user with a name like this. Unfortunately for me, all of my team, (less one) have Bluepages names of this form. The one team member who did not have the (NAME) in their entry, was import'able if I included the middle initial plus the period. Can someone give me some advice about what RTC search syntax to use to find Bluepages entries of this form ? Are there plans to relax the search syntax so users can conveniently find names of this form ? |
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what difference are there between Beta2 and M6 using IBM internet LDAP.
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where do I get docs of IBM internet LDAP Configuration in M6
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On 14/04/2008 17:53, Balaji Krish wrote:
David, Sorry to start up this thread again. It's possible for a user (at least in IBM) to indirectly change their preferredIdentity email address in LDAP. Speaking from personal experience (in IBM), if you do this then it isn't possible to change your email address back again. What would be the impact on a Jazz repository and the individual's ability to use the Jazz repository if this happens? Thanks, Jeremy |
In RC1 we added the ability to change your email address to be any of the
email addresses that are provided from LDAP. If your current Jazz user email address does not match any of the email addresses from LDAP, a warning is presented in your user editor to help you know you need to make the change. I do not know of any impact on your usage on the Jazz repository with a change in your LDAP email address: your userid and password would remain valid. HTH Darins Jazz Process Team "Jeremy Hughes" <Jeremy> wrote in message news:fvcd04$cr2$1@localhost.localdomain... On 14/04/2008 17:53, Balaji Krish wrote: |
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Hi Darins, thanks for responding. Some more questions in line ...
On 01/05/2008 17:55, Darin Swanson wrote: In RC1 we added the ability to change your email address to be any of the This is good news, but the way we're using Jazz is for the user id to be the same as the preferredIdentity email address at the time the user is given access to the Jazz repository. All web applications I know of that use the 'bluepages' LDAP for authentication only work if you enter your preferredIdentity email address as the user id. If your preferredIdentity email address changes, then so does the 'userid' for all the 'bluepages' LDAP based web applications. In RC1, will changing email address also change the user id used to login? Or just the email address notifications are sent to? If your current Jazz user email address does not match any of the email I don't believe this will happen with 'bluepages' LDAP. AIUI you can't shake off an email address in IBM. You just start using a new email address (preferredIdentity). This is a good thing because no-one else can take an old email address you once had and receive emails intended for you.
So this suggests an answer to my question above and enforces something I've seen elsewhere - once given a userid in Jazz you can't change it. What's the best practice you're recommending here? It feels like if the authentication mechanism is tied to the preferredIdentity email address, the userid shouldn't be the preferredIdentity if the preferredIdentity can be changed. Thanks, Jeremy
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