Re: finding the max value of an attribute

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

openldap wrote:
> when searching values in the LDAP directory, it certainly has occured to 
> everybody to have to find the maximum value of an attribute. e.g. when 
> defining a new user in the directory you might specify one more than the 
> maximum value of all uidNumber attributes as the new user's uidNumber.

For this particular use case you should rather implement assigning uid 
numbers by using a dedicated uid pool entry.

Also consider to use overlay slapo-unique.

Ciao, Michael.