Re: why posixAccount MUST contain 'cn'?

Andrew Findlay <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Dec 2014 09:53:17 +0000

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On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:43:03AM +1100, Luke Howard wrote:

> The only issue might be that some clients reject entries that are missing “cn”.

That would be an error in itself, as even mandatory attributes can be
hidden by access control and the GECOS field is often empty in
/etc/passwd entries so it is clearly not essential.

Andrew
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