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Extend the Object Class

The object class specifies the required and optional attributes that define an entry. An LDAP entry, such as a user profile, may belong to more than one object class. For example, the default object classes for a user in Registration Services are top,person,organizationalperson,inetorgperson. Each object class extends the attributes that a user’s profile can contain.

Note: Each LDAP Directory includes a set of object classes. See your directory server’s documentation for more information.

The user.properties file contains the object class attribute. You can add an additional value(s) to this attribute to extend the object class for users.

Note: The org.properties and group.properties files are used by DMS2. Modifying these files does not affect Registration Services.

To add values to the object class attribute, append the additional value(s) to the values paired with the OBJECTCLASS attribute, using a comma (,).

The following example includes the additional object class value pilotorganization to the object class attribute for organizations:

OBJECTCLASS=objectclass,top,organizationalunit,pilotorganization

After extending the object class, add the additional attributes that you want to collect from the new object class to the appropriate properties files, as described in the following section.

More information:

Object Properties Files