Associating User IDs and User Profile Maps

When a user is authenticated, a user profile must be created in the PeopleSoft database without a password. Every user profile map will be associated with an authentication map. When a user is logged in through a authentication map, the profile is updated with the values in the corresponding user profile map. All the information that populates the user profile comes from the user profile map. You can specify the role, languageCD, description, and so on in the user profile map.

The user ID of the profile that the system creates corresponds to the User Profile Map - User ID Attribute field, which contains an LDAP attribute name.

Consider an entry corresponding to the user adamclark in LDAP:

dn: uid=adamclark, dc=peoplesoft, dc=com
cn: adamclark
uid: adamclark123
description: peoplesoft user
mail: [e-mail]
telephone: [phone]
objectclass: person
password: PASSWORD

Example 1

Authentication Map Search Attribute: cn

User Profile Map User ID Attribute:mail

You must log in as adamclark/PASSWORD, while the system creates the user profile with the name [e-mail].

Example 2

Authentication Map Search Attribute: uid

User Profile Map User ID Attribute:telephone

You must log in as adamclark123/PASSWORD while the system creates the user profile with the name 12345678.

Note:

The Search Attribute value in the authentication map and the User ID Attribute value in the user profile map need not be the same.