Re: userId v uid

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 04:44 PM 6/12/00 -0400, Mike Douglass wrote:
>I added the entry
>
>attribute	userID		uid	ces
>
>to my slapd.at.conf file and I have the index entry
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>index	userID	pres,eq
>
>in slapd.conf
>
>I added some entries which have the userID attribute set and a search of 
>the form
>
>ldapsearch ... "(&(objectclass=posixaccount)(userid=myid))"
>
>succeeds and displays the attributes for that entry. A seach of the form
>
>ldapsearch ... "(&(objectclass=posixaccount)(uid=myid))"
>
>gives no response. Shouldn't uid just be a synonym for userid?

Well, that's what you'd expect, but that's not how 1.x treats
the alternative name.  Basically, it allows either userID or
uid to satisify an objectclass allows/requires demand but otherwise
treats them as being two separate attribute types.

Bottom line, use only short names when using OpenLDAP 1.x.