[Fedora-directory-users] ObjectClass PosixGroup + UID/GID auto-generation

[solarflow99]

On 8/11/08, Kashif Ali <snake007uk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> After spending a long weekend, configuring Fedora-DS to have central
> autentication + Central home dirs, I now have two issues which I would like
> to know if anyone can help me with.
>
> 1) Currently when adding a new user, I have to manually goto advanced
> options and add a value called posixgroup to the object class, this is so
> that groupID have a name and you dont see the error GroupID name not found
> when logging onto a box. Is there anyway to update the default user
> template, so that, when you enable posixaccount, posixgroup objectclass is
> automatically added? thus removing the manual process?
>

This is in the FDS console you are talking about right?  This would be nice
to have, but I guess unless you can change the java code, its still less
flexible in this way.  Often people will use a different front end such as
ldapadmin, while the FDS console is preferred for controlling replication,
etc.

 2) Is there anyway to get the directory server generate UNIQUE UID/GID
> based on last uid created. Ideally I would like the range to start from 5000
> and finish at 8000. The automatic procedure would just use the next
> available uid/gid in the list, again removing the need for the user to check
> and make sure the id is unique.
>


It looks like most front ends favour choosing a random one, then require you
to set it manually to what you want.  This is to avoid possible conflicts
without having to build in a way to check for this, I agree it should be an
available option though.
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1965645&forum_id=305548&abmode=1



 any help with either of these issues would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Kashif
>
>
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