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Docs - update ldap page to add clarity around sAMAccountName #19450

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Expand Up @@ -225,6 +225,8 @@ password and enable the account.
Windows NT systems and has a limit of 20 characters. Keep this in mind when defining your `username_template`.
See [here](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/adschema/a-samaccountname) for additional details.

Since the default `username_template` is longer than 20 characters which follows the template of `v_{{.DisplayName}}_{{.RoleName}}_{{random 10}}_{{unix_time}}`, we recommend customising the `username_template` on the role configuration to generate accounts with names less than 20 characters. Please refer to the [username templating document](/vault/docs/concepts/username-templating) for more information.

With regard to adding dynamic users to groups, AD doesn't let you directly modify a user's `memberOf` attribute.
The `member` attribute of a group and `memberOf` attribute of a user are
[linked attributes](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/ad/linked-attributes). Linked attributes are
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