Re: compare uidNumber in LDAP

[Elliot Metsger <emetsger@jhu.edu>]

Hi,

(Anyone can follow up or correct me here...)

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

This is accomplished with the integerOrderingMatch rule, which is 
supported by 2.1.x, and perhaps the very latest 2.0.x (I'm not sure on 
2.0.x).  Check servers/slapd/schema_init.c.

> 	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?

If you have support for the integerOrderingMatch rule, you could modify 
the uidNumber attribute in nis.schema to include the 
integerOrderingMatch rule.  Theoretically that should do the trick, 
although I have yet to test this.

Regards,
Elliot