[Freeipa-devel] webUI question

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 16:06 +1000, David O'Brien wrote:
> Rob Crittenden wrote:
> > Giuseppe Paterno' wrote:
> >> Hi!  Quick question about the webui: why does it requires the e-mail?
> >> And what's the "see also" field that is required?
> >> A user might be not human and might not have an email associated.
> >> ipa-adduser does not require these fields.
> >> Cheers,
> > 
> > Some of it is just experimentation, particularly seeAlso. We want to be
> > able to allow users to dynamically add attributes to the new/show/edit
> > pages. Two are there now, seeAlso and o. As a demo one is required and
> > one isn't.
> > 
> > As for e-mail, I'm not sure. Simo raised a similar question and we never
> > got it answered.
> > 
> > rob
> > 
> 
> If some users are not going to be human, it makes me wonder, is "People"
> and "Person" the correct terminology? Ought we use "User", especially
> considering the underlying commands are ipa-adduser, etc.

Yes this is why I lobbied for cn=users and not ou=people :-)

Simo.