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ctwoodward Novice
ctwoodward
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Nov 19, 2009 9:58 AM

Question about changing the user id field

Hi folks,

 

Currently we are using an MS ADAM server and importing users form 9 different domains into the one ldap store.  We are using sAMAccountName as the user id field and running into a problem that a few of the companeis have the same user naming practices so we have duplicate user ids which means those users cannot login.

 

We want to change the user id field to userPrincipalName since that will be userid@company.com and will remove the duplicate issue.  How will this affect the content currently in Jive, what sort of the re-mapping effort will be required?

 

Thanks

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CurtisG Jive Employee
CurtisG
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Nov 19, 2009 11:01 AM in response to: Craig Woodward
Re: Question about changing the user id field

Hi Craig,

 

Not sure if there is a really good way to go about doing this as the username is stored across a few different tables.  I am going to check around for more details to see if this is possible.

 

-Curtis

CurtisG Jive Employee
CurtisG
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Nov 19, 2009 12:39 PM in response to: Craig Woodward
Re: Question about changing the user id field

Craig,

 

Here is the details we have on the username throughout our application:

 

jiveBlog - displayname

jiveUser - username

jiveUserContainer - name

jiveWFCurrentStep - owner

jiveWFHistoryStep - owner

 

I know that jiveWFCurrentStep holds pending Friend Requests, which causes an issue that the pending friends page will not show the requests if it is not changed.

 

You would need to update the LDAP query as well,

 

-Curtis

ctwoodward Novice
ctwoodward
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Nov 19, 2009 2:08 PM in response to: Curtis Gross
Re: Question about changing the user id field

So if we update the username field in ldap then it looks like everyone would be considered a new user and all current content would be orphaned.  Is that a correct assessment?

CurtisG Jive Employee
CurtisG
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Nov 19, 2009 2:30 PM in response to: Craig Woodward
Re: Question about changing the user id field

Correct,

 

Everyone would be re-created in the system with the new usernames, but it would probably fail due to the email field being the same.

 

That actually makes me think - if you did make this change would each user have a username = email?  Cause that would end up being equally bad in the eyes of our application.

 

-Curtis

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ctwoodward
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Dec 11, 2009 9:44 AM in response to: Curtis Gross
Re: Question about changing the user id field

No, our users would have user names like woodwc2@ig.bz while the email addresses are craig.woodward@investorsgroup.com .

CurtisG Jive Employee
CurtisG
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Dec 11, 2009 9:45 AM in response to: Craig Woodward
Re: Question about changing the user id field

As long as everyone has unique username / email you should be good then!

 

-Curtis

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