Hi there,

I was forwarded a development thread from the 389 DS project [0]. They are considering updating their default representation of user identities away from givenName-surname to "legalName" and "displayName".

Right now, by default users have a givenName and mandatory surname, but that isn't really suitable for many cultures where it's not that simple, or people who only have one name.  There are also cases where people don't need or want to be identified by their legal name, for example, divorcees or trans people who haven't had a name change, or people who need to hide their identity.

So, instead of givenName + surname, they want to change the default to have 'displayName' and an optional 'legalName' instead.  Legal name would be your full name, no matter what length or format or ordering; display name would be how you want your name to show up around the system.

I think it would be great if we could show support for this change either on the mailing list thread [0], or by contacting the developers directly.

Hope you're having a lovely day,
Charelle.

[0] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/389-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/IEC7IMLLD6D5S3DIC463IR6CT5JRNQTG/

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Charelle Collett
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Red Hat Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
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