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Re: compare uidNumber in LDAP

I use perl-ldap (perl-ldap.sourceforge.net) as my interface to Openldap, Unfortunatly I am only just getting round to writing the code for grabbing uid/gids and figuring out the max.

I can post some code snips when I have got it finished if anyone wants them.

Huw


Derek Simkowiak wrote:

My LDAP server's objects contain attribute uidNumber and i want to find
out which is the maximum uidNumber.


	I have this exact same problem!  Heh.  Let me guess: You want to
find the maximum uidNumber so that you can increment it by one and assign
that as the uidNumber for the next entry...?

It is trouble that i use ldapsearch to find out which is maxmium so i
find in cpan.perl.org.


	I haven't tried to solve this problem yet.  I was hoping there was
some kind of auto-increment feature of LDAP that I haven't found yet.
But if not, is the best thing to simply run a search?

	Surely this is a common problem.  I imagine that the people who
came up with the posixAccount schema thought of a solution to this, or at
least, a "best practice".

	What does everyone else do?


Thanks,
Derek