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Re: [grouper-users] Query on Naming Conflicts - Grouper, ldappcng, AD


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  • From: Peter Schober <>
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  • Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Query on Naming Conflicts - Grouper, ldappcng, AD
  • Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:09:12 +0100
  • Organization: Vienna University Computer Center

* Tom Zeller
<>
[2011-03-10 18:05]:
> At Memphis, we make sure that our Active Directory RDNs are unique,
> whether they be users, groups, contacts, etc., and these RDNs are
> provisioned to sAMAccountName. Whenever a new person, group, or
> contact is created, we check our namespace for uniqueness.
>
> Silly, but, you might get away with adding a prefix to sAMAccountName
> for groups.

Sorry, don't know a thing about MS-Active Directory but if values for
the attribute sAMAccountName indeed need to be unique in the complete
DIT, is there a requirement to provision the sAMAccountName attribute
on group names at all?
-peter



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