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Emmanuel Lecharny resolved DIRSERVER-1956.
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Resolution: Fixed
Fix Version/s: (was: 2.0.0-RC1)
(was: 2.0.0)
2.0.0.AM26
Implemented : commit 78d65a8994ec65e415c86bbdfb5ee18a9268ce0d
> Add support for rfc4525 (increment)
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> Key: DIRSERVER-1956
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-1956
> Project: Directory ApacheDS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0-M15
> Reporter: Emmanuel Lecharny
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 2.0.0.AM26
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> It would be great to add support for RFC 4525 :
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4525
> As described by Ashton Davis in the mail with subject "Feature Request:
> AutoIncrement fields"
> ===========
> I run my Linux environment authentication from Directory Server, and so I use
> Posix users and groups. As I continue to add users to the system, I'm
> finding it to be an increasing inconvenience to have to find the last UID I
> used and increment by one. There are programmatic ways to handle this, but
> none of them truly address the issue. What we need is to have Directory
> Server (and Directory Studio) handle incrementing numerical ID fields.
> There's already an RFC in existence: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4525
> Another "nice to have" would be enforcement of unique fields (uidNumber
> should be able to be forced unique)
> Use case:
> I'm creating a new user for my linux environment.
> They get created as posixAccount, which requires uidNumber
> I give them their cn, gidNumber (which is one of two right now),
> homeDirectory, loginShell, etc - nothing out of the ordinary.
> Then I get to uidNumber. I have to make sure I know what uidNumber was used
> last. Find it. Add one to it. And hope nobody else has added users since I
> last did.
> Solution:
> Click uidNumber field -> check "auto-increment" and "unique"
> Once I save the entry, it creates a uidNumber for me and applies it to the
> field.
> I hope that's detailed enough.
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