Email Address/User ID

[adeelarifbhatti]

Hi all,
well, i am about to plan for the migration from an email server which support different userID and email address i.e. a.b@domain.com and user ID is ab.
So how can i modify my zimbra LDAP's schema i.e. inetOrganization.
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Plus, I want to add an attribute in my zimbra ldap, i.e. when ever a user will be created an unique value will be assigned to it for every user.So,how can I add this attribute in my schema file.
following can be an hint
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ldapmodify -D <admindn> -w <adminpw> -i myschema.ldif

where the myschema.ldif file contains:

dn: cn=schema
changetype: modify
add: attributetypes
attributetypes: ( myAttribute-oid NAME ( 'myAttribute' )
DESC 'An attribute I defined for my LDAP application'
EQUALITY 2.5.13.2 SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15
USAGE userApplications )
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add: ibmattributetypes
ibmattributetypes: ( myAttribute-oid DBNAME ( 'myAttrTable' 'myAttrColumn' )
ACCESS-CLASS normal LENGTH 200 )
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Regards
Adeel

[sam]

might be much simpler to not touch the schema, but create the appropriate aliases. IE, create an account for 'a.b' and give them an alias 'ab'

[adeelarifbhatti]

I had this in my mind,
But in this way i wont be able to hide my user Id from the world, actually i wanted to have a different(hidden) user ID.

More over how to add the ldap attribute in the zimbra ldap for the users to have the value at creation time ???


regards
Adeel