Re: Uid Numbers

[Gerald Carter <gcarter@valinux.com>]

Celine Murphy wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know anyway of enforcing uniqueness in 
> ldap? Or of generation uid numbers??

Don't know of one.  Normally, this is the responsibility of
the account creation script.  Often done by storing the 
next available uid in an object and incrementing it after 
creating a new account.  

The other possibility is to search the dircetory for 
an available uid each time.






Cheers, jerry
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