On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:32:28AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Giorgio Pioda] > > Is there an hack to modify the username creation for new users. We > > have the following policy: first name first letter and complete > > lastname. So Peter Muster would have a "pmuster" account and not, > > like gosa proposes "peterm". > > According to > <URL: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/GettingStarted#User_Management_with_GOsa.2BALI- > > > this can be adjusted in gosa.conf.
Changing e.g. the default entry
idGenerator="{%givenName[3-6]}{%sn[3-6]}"
in /etc/gosa/gosa.conf to
idGenerator="{%givenName[1]}{%sn[23]}{id!1}"
would generate the uid pmuster for user Peter Muster and pmuster1 for
the next user Petra Muster, max. length of uids: 25; man 5 gosa.conf
for more details.
> An alternative for you would be to import a CSV file with the wanted
> username instead of leaving it to GOsa to construct them. See the
> manual for information on how to do this.
Using a csv file would allow to have the right non ascii name as well for
the GECOS field. There's a drawback though: it's up to you to avoid
duplicte usernames like the ones above. If there's already an account
pmuster for user Peter Muster a new import with the same uid will throw
an error.
Examples for csv file entries:
(Users Özil Muster, Petra Mühe, Peter Mühe)
omuster,Muster,Özil,secret1
pmuehe,Mühe,Petra,secret2
pmuehe1,Mühe,Peter,seret3
One could generate the (ascii) uid using a spreadsheet.
Maybe that I should add this csv example to the manual.
Wolfgang
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