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

[Nathan Kinder]

Kashif Ali 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?
>
> 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.
There is a first version of a "Distributed Numeric Assignment" plug-in 
in the current Fedora Directory Server code that deals with this 
problem.  It is designed to manage a range of unique numeric values 
across multiple master FDS instances.

You can read more about the current implementation at 
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNA_Plugin_Implementation

I am currently doing some re-design and improvement to this plug-in to 
address some shortcomings of the current implementation.  These areas 
are pointed out at the bottom of the above page.

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