MS Active Directory for sell-side: duplicate user problem

[former_member188433]

Hi All - We installed Sourcing 7.0 SP2. We are using Active Directory LDAP for our sell-side users. We have a problem with duplicate users in the LDAP. In our scenario sell-side users are added to the LDAP via the Sourcing application. We map the Sourcing userid to the sAMAccountName in the LDAP. When sell-side users are added from vendor registration or from the RFx contact add options, the LDAP distinguished name gets formatted in the following way:

CN=First Lastname,OU=Users,OU=Common,DC=abc,DC=def

This causes a problem if another sell-side user with the same first/last name is added. The LDAP rejects the 2nd user because the distinguished name already exists.

We want the distinguished userid to always be formatted as follows:

CN=UserID,OU=Users,OU=Common,DC=abc,DC=def

Does anyone know how to correct this issue? Thanks for the help (points awarded for helpful answers).

Jeff

[vikram_shanmugasundaram · Accepted solution]

Hi Jeff,

There are no configurations in the system that would alter the behavior you are seeing, unfortunately. Using scripting as a workaround may have been already proposed. In the validate script you could incorporate your own logic for the user id so there will be no duplicates.

Regards,

Vikram

[former_member188433 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Vikram - We are now testing custom scripts to prevent the problem.

Cheers - Jeff