RE: compare uidNumber in LDAP

["Jason Corley" <Jason.Corley@togethersoft.com>]

So my understanding of your recommendation (or the attached links) is to 
create an entry like so:

	dn: cn=maxUid,dc=example,dc=com
	objectClass: extensibleObject
	objectClass: top
	uidNumber: 500

And then do the following ldapmodify:

	dn: cn=maxUid,dc=example,dc=com
	changetype: modify
	delete: uidNumber
	uidNumber: 500
	-
	add: uidNumber
	uidNumber: 501

Sorry if this is really basic, I'm just trying to make sure I have a grasp on
the solution.
Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Howard Chu [mailto:hyc@highlandsun.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 3:51 AM
To: 'Derek Simkowiak'; 'Brian Leung'
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: RE: compare uidNumber in LDAP


Best practice: search the archive.
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200110/msg00548.html
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200208/msg00358.html

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
  http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
  Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Derek Simkowiak

> > 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
> 
> 
> 
>