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Well-Known Attributes for an LDAP User Store

Well-known attributes have special meaning in CA Identity Manager. They are identified by the following syntax:

%ATTRIBUTENAME%

In this syntax, ATTRIBUTENAME must be uppercase.

A well-known attribute is mapped to one physical attribute, using an attribute description.

In the following attribute description, the attribute userpassword is mapped to the well-known attribute %PASSWORD% so that CA Identity Manager will treat the value in userpassword as a password as follows:

<ImsManagedObjectAttr
	physicalname="userpassword"
	displayname="Password"
	description="Password"
	valuetype="String"
	required="false"
	multivalued="false"
	wellknown="%PASSWORD%"
	maxlength="0" />

Some well-known attributes are required; others are optional.