Creating objects like those in the Identity Vault
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Q:
We have a production Identity Vault on eDirectory 8.7.3 that seems to
use the uniqueID attribute as the primary naming attribute, and the CN is
populated with the person's full name. I say "primary" naming attribute because when we run an LDAP query (with uniqueID mapped to "uid" for LDAP), we get
In iManager,objects are listed by their uniqueID and not by CN. We are trying to create a new directory, for authentication only, that only has User objects and passwords, but almost no other information. When we attempt to synchronize, DirXML creates all users in the new "auth" directory with "cn=abc123,o=org" instead of "uid=abc123,o=org".
How do I get DirXML to create the objects the same way as they are in
the ID Vault?
A:
In the placement policy (on the publisher channel of the driver in the
destination tree) generate a dest-dn of the form
"container1\container2\..\containerN\uniqueID=
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