Configuring the custom ID attribute for users or groups

Configure IBM Connections to use custom ID attributes to identify users and groups in the LDAP directory.

• If we specified a single ID attribute for both users and groups, you don't need to complete this task. This task is required only if you specified a custom ID attribute for users or groups in the Specifying a custom ID for users or groups topic.

• Ensure you have completed the steps to specify different ID attributes for users and groups in the Specify a custom ID for users or groups topic.

We can change the default setting to use a custom ID to identify users and groups in the directory. To configure IBM Connections to use the custom ID attribute specified earlier:

1. Add the new attribute to LotusConnections-config.xml. To do so:

   1. Start the wsadmin tool.

   2. Access the Connections configuration file:

      execfile("<$WAS_HOME>/profiles/<DMGR>/config/bin_lc_admin/ connectionsConfig.py")

      If we are prompted to specify which server to connect to, enter 1. This information is not used by the wsadmin client when we are making configuration changes.

   3. Check out the Connections configuration files : LCConfigService.checkOutConfig("//tmp", "cell_name")

      where

      • /tmp is the temporary working directory to which configuration XML and XSD files are copied. The files are kept in this working directory while you change them.

      • cell_name is the name of the WAS cell hosting the Connections application. This argument is case sensitive. To determine:

        print AdminControl.getCell()

      For example:

      LCConfigService.checkOutConfig("/temp","foo01Cell01")

   4. From the temporary directory to which you checked out the Connections configuration files, open LotusConnections-config.xml in a text editor.

   5. Add the new custom properties to LotusConnections-config.xml. For example:

      <sloc:serviceReference serviceName="directory"
      ...
      custom_user_id_attribute="customUserID"
      custom_group_id_attribute="customGroupID"/> 

   6. Save LotusConnections-config.xml.

   7. Check in the files:LCConfigService.checkInConfig()

   8. Deploy changes: synchAllNodes()

2. Stop and restart the WAS instance hosting IBM Connections.

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