[Fedora-directory-users] Automatically incrementing uidNumber

[Rich Megginson]

Thanks.  I've taken this information and created a How-To for 
phpLdapAdmin: http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:phpLdapAdmin

Jeff Falgout wrote:

>>Ok, I see.  Sure.  I would love to get a list of features of other LDAP
>>administration tools that are not supported by the Fedora DS console.
>>1) Support auto-increment of uidNumber (other attributes?  gidNumber?)
>>2) Support for shadowAccount host based access restriction (feature of
>>DirectoryAdministrator)
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I haven't had
>>>much luck getting phpLdapAdmin working with fedora-ds (I've had some
>>>objectclass violations when creating new users - haven't spent much time
>>>trying to figure that out as I like the console much better).
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I'd like to get this working - can you post the error messages you're
>>seeing?  And access and errors log.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>A simple change in phpLdapAdmin allowed me to create a posix user in
>fedora-ds. In the templates/creation directory, edit the file
>new_user_template.php, search for 'value="gn"' and replace it with
>'value="givenname"'.
>
>I'm also using groupOfUniqueNames for authentication via pam - I had to
>create a group using the custom template, selecting the groupOfUniqueNames
>objectclass and then skipped adding members to the group until after the
>object was created. When I tried to add members to the new group, the
>template for groupofnames was loaded, not groupofuniquenames, so when you
>add a member, it creates a value for the attribute member (not
>uniqueMember). I hacked the file
>templates/modification/group_of_names.php. Around line 21, " $attr_name =
>'member'; "  I replaced member with uniqueMember - a hack, I know, but it
>worked. Now I can create the initial member as a uniqueMember.
>
>That's as far as I've gotten.
>
>Jeff
>
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