UCS 2.4 - Univention

4 Univention Directory Manager
User templates named following the pattern . Groupware Account are automatically
provided for each Kolab home server during a Kolab for UCS installation. More detailed information
can be found in the Kolab for UCS manual. Attributes can be included in the template by use of angle
brackets. A list of possible attributes can be called by the command:
univention-directory-manager users/user
in the section users/user variables of the output.
For example: A user-defined UNIX home directory can be created as /home/ - this corre-
sponds to the standard if no user template is applied - or as /home/.. The e-mail
address could, for example, be predefined by .@firma.com.
Such replacements are generally possibly for any value, there is no syntax or semantics check. So, if no
first name is given during the creation of a user, the above e-mail address would begin with a dot and would
thus be invalid according to the e-mail standard. Similar sources of error can also occur when handling file
paths etc.
Irresolvable attributes are deleted. If due to a spelling error in a user template the e-mail address
is predefined, for example, as .@firma.com, then the result will be .@firma.com.
If only a single character of the attribute is required, the index of the required character can be given in the
user template in square brackets after the name of the attribute. The count of characters of the attribute
begins with 0, so that index 1 corresponds to the second character of the attribute value. Accordingly,
[0].@firma.com means, an e-mail address will consist of the first letter of the
first name plus the second name.
A substring of the attribute value can be defined by declaring a scope within square brackets. In doing
so, the index of the first required character and the index of the last required character plus one are to be
entered. The input [2:5] returns the third to fifth character of the first name.
Appending :lower or :upper to the attribute name converts the attribute value to lower or upper case, e.g.
.
Attention:
If a user template is used for adding a user, this template will overwrite all the fields with the preset values
of the template. In doing so, an empty field is set to ””. Thus, if the user template has ”” as the UNIX home
directory, then this field is empty when the user is added, so that a value can be entered manually. If UCS
standard behaviour is desired, the standard values documented in this chapter should be entered into the
template.
Detailed documentation of attributes configurable within a user template can be found in Chapter 4.5.1.
4.5.12.5 Locked values
The data contained in the temporary container are created and used on a program-internal basis exclu-
sively.
The values of some of the attributes have to be unique. If a certain value is to be set, a search within the
LDAP directory will be performed beforehand in order to check whether the value is already in use.
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