Manually populating information in Unix attribute tab

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There are many situations in which one need to manually populate information pertaining to Unix attribute tab. However we don’t recommend populating this information manually or using any script but just in case if you want to know then following are the attributes needed for users:

uid:

            Contain the same value as in sAMAccountName.

uidNumber:

            Contain the uid number of the user.

gidnumber:

            Contain the gid number of the user.

mssfu30name:

            Contain the same value as in sAMAccountName.

loginshell:

            Contain the login shell of the user, for example /bin/sh

unixhomedirectory:

            Contains the full path of the home directory of the user, for example /home/user

msSFU30NisDomain:

            Contains the NIS domain name.

Please note that nisdomainname should be in lower case. If you put it in upper case then Unix attribute tab will get populated but it won’t update all the attributes.

You can use the following attributes if you want to populate information in group’s unix attribute tab:

msSFU30Name:

            Contains the sAMAccountName of the group.

msSFU30NisDomain:

            Contains the NIS domain name.

gidNumber:

            Contains the actual gid number.