[Freeipa-devel] User questions

[Richard Megginson]

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?
Fedora DS has an auto UID generation plugin.
>
> 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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