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when I set up a user some fields are populated automatically. How can I control the format of these fields. I know that during installation there was an option, but not exactly what I wanted.

For example,for John Smith, I want the mail address to be flastname ( jsmith, ALL lower case). Also, authentication ID to be ONLY flastname (jsmith) no @mydomain.com.

Thanks
manuel

Hi,

I'm pretty sure this can be done.. A quick look at the admin guide suggests Chapter 11, Internet Address Creation might be helpfull to you.

I haven't had chance to read it fully but I'm sure it would help a bit...

trig

mnauta,

actually, the two scenarios that you have been describing are where the current Scalix release has some limitations.

These can be worked around for Internet Addresses by using a mapper script (see man omiam for details), but there is currently no way to do this for the authentication identifier.

The next release of Scalix will include options to do flast (all lowercase) and also to exclude the domain from the authid.

Hope this helps,
Florian.

florian wrote:mnauta,

actually, the two scenarios that you have been describing are where the current Scalix release has some limitations.

These can be worked around for Internet Addresses by using a mapper script (see man omiam for details), but there is currently no way to do this for the authentication identifier.

The next release of Scalix will include options to do flast (all lowercase) and also to exclude the domain from the authid.

Hope this helps,
Florian.

Hi Florian,

I suppose the "next release" did not include this option? Is there no way to add this manually?

you can modify the user authentication settings under the SAC. the Scalix Administration Guide on Chapter 11, starting at page 176 will tell you about this in detail.



internet_address is the full internet address of the user if you want to override the default setting in SAC, firstname.lastname@xyz.com

Scalix 10 does include further options including the one mentioned; I'm not 100% sure right now if they can be set through SAC though. Please check "man omaddu" and the description of Authentication ID generation methods - you might need to setup some parameters in general.cfg manually.

Hope this helps,
Florian.

Florian - yes, that is great. Looks like I can manually add the authid generation rule to the general.cfg. Will work with that and see if it works. I'm looking to import 500+ users, so want the default to be correct (and jive with AD).

Thanks!