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Updating profiles with alternate login IDs

Profiles containing alternate login ID can be updated by end users using the Attach other accounts (PSL) module or by help desk users using the Help users (IDA) module . See Manual account attachment examples.

You can also specify alternate login IDs for users and add them in batches using a text file <instance>\psconfig \malias.txt. You might do this, for example, to minimize user enrollment time, or where a source of profiles target system has no attributes to map to an easy-to-remember profile ID. The text file must be created manually, and use the following format:

" <Target system ID> " " <Login ID> " " <Profile ID> "

For example:

"ACTIVEDIRECTORY" "glorib" "glorib"
"LINUX" "browng" "glorib"
"LDAP" "gloria.brown" "glorib"
"WEBAPP" "153029" "glorib"

The next time auto discovery is run, the alternate login IDs are associated with the specified profiles.

Every time auto discovery runs it will add the manual associations specified by malias.txt. If the manual association is removed by the user or help desk through other mechanisms (but not removed from malias.txt), it will be re-added on the next discovery. Removing entries from malias.txt will not remove manual associations it created, as it is only used to add associations. Similarly deleting malias.txt entirely will not remove the manual associations it created.

To remove manual associations added by malias.txt the following must occur:

  1. The association must be manually removed.

  2. The malias.txt entry must be removed to prevent the association from being re-added on the next auto-discovery.

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