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Ldap. what fields for middle name and birth name (maiden name)

Hi,

I'm desperately looking for field names for ldap for the middle and last name.

Imagine following person

born as Maria Anastasia Kelly
and named
Maria Anastasia Miller

So up to my inderstanding
first name = Maria
middle name = Anastasia
birth name = Kelly
last name = Miller

So what would CN be?
"cn" = "Maria Miller" or "Maria Anastasia Miller"
"sn" = "Miller"
"givenName" = "Maria"

How should I name the field for the birth name
(and if required middle name)

I'd like to be as 'standard' as possible.

Thanks a lot in advance

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Will Szymkowski

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gelonida

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Thanks will for your info.
In fact the server is not an active directory server, but just an LDAP server on a linux server, that we will create from scratch for a customer.

The customer expressed the wish to store the birth name (maiden name) and the middle name.
I'm mainly interested in finding field names, that are kind of common. I did not find any mentioning of these fields in the RFCs, so I wondered what other people are doing if they have to store such information.

How do you tread middle names?

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gelonida

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Isn't initials only one letter and middle name the full middle name?

Is it common practice to abuse initials to store the full middle name?
Is it common practice to re purpose existing fields or is it 'cleaner' to add own fields?

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gelonida

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Hi,
I didn't forget this thread.
I'm just waiting to see whether anybody else had any experience with ldap servers storing
middle names and birth names.

The LDAP server does not exist so far. It will be created from scratch to store this information.
It's intended as a single sign on solution with basic user information for a set of proprietary web servers.
So far the proprietary web services would like to have middle name and maiden name in a central location.

I know I can just use any field name, but was mostly curious to see what others did in a similiar solution (whether others encountered similiar situations)