[Freeipa-devel] User questions

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 09:57 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> A few questions about adding a user:
> 
> 1. With our current objectclasses we are required to include cn and sn 
> (but gn is forbidden). In a GUI it is easy to simply ask for first and 
> last name and concatenate them to get cn (and probably use it for gecos 
> too). In a CLI it is a bit awkward to ask for first name. To be luseradd 
> compatible we could require 'gecos' and split that on the first space 
> but that is likely to cause problems.
> 
> 2. Someone is going to write a uid-generator, right? So I just need to 
> get "get_new_uid()" or something?

You should leave this blank, and before the LDAP server accepts the
operation, it will have filled it in with Pete's magical generator
(DNA). 

> 3. What should the gid be set to by default? We are creating a group for 
> each user with the same username/uid?
> 
> rob
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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
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