by Gary Lynch.
Hi All
Thanks for the discussion on this subject but i have found the solution which is instead of 'pointing to samacountname' i have pointed LDAP user attribute to a different field which in my case is the employeeID field as employee number never changes
we did have to do a little server-side scripting because we use uppercase letters in contact workers numbers ie CWK123 this is now being converted by MYSQL with the cron script rather than having out IT dept and HR change their processes
Gary