Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Tom Zeller <>]

>> I believe sAMAccountName is required for security groups, not
>> distribution lists, and will be auto-completed by some versions of AD.
>>
>> [1] http://ldapwiki.willeke.com/wiki/SamAccountName
>
>  "As far as we know, although the schema states it is "required", Win2K3
>  and later will create sAMAccountName for you if you don't specify it,
>  but it is real ugly like: $9J2000-F2RTQRTA7C5F."
>
> Actually that sounds just like the way to go, then?

Probably. Ugly can be beautiful, sometimes :-)

I just don't know everywhere else sAMAccountName shows up, either in
GUIs or third-party applications or 
Live@edu.

We have group sAMAccountNames longer then 20 characters, so YMMV.