Hi,

Thanks Emmanuel. I guess that is an option, but it has a number of
compulsory fields (e.g. uidNumber) that don't really apply to this
account. Any other ideas?

Paul


On 12/09/2014 15:04, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote:
> Le 12/09/14 15:10, Paul Johnston a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to include some service accounts in our directory. These are 
>> application 
>> users (i.e. used by software, not people) that need to connect to LDAP. At 
>> the 
>> moment I am using inetOrgPerson for these accounts. But this isn't ideal as 
>> they 
>> appear in the address book (which filters on "person"). What objectclass 
>> should 
>> I be using?
> There is an 'posixAccount' ObjectClass that might fit your need :
>
> objectclass ( 1.3.6.1.1.1.2.0 NAME 'posixAccount' SUP top 
> <http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ape/core-schema.html#top> AUXILIARY
>       DESC 'Abstraction of an account with POSIX attributes'
>       MUST ( cn 
> <http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ape/core-schema.html#commonname> $ uid 
> <http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ape/core-schema.html#uid> $ uidNumber 
> <http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ape/nis.html#uidnumber> $ gidNumber 
> <http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ape/nis.html#gidnumber> $ homeDirectory 
> <http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ape/nis.html#homedirectory> )
>       MAY ( userPassword 
> <http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ape/core-schema.html#userpassword> $ 
> loginShell <http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ape/nis.html#loginshell> $ gecos 
> <http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ape/nis.html#gecos> $ description 
> <http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ape/core-schema.html#description> ) )
>
>
>
>

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