On Tuesday 10 June 2008 06:30:24 Howard Chu wrote: > Joel Reed wrote: > > The attached uidnumber.c overlay intercepts ADD requests for entries > > with a posixAccount objectclass that do not have a uidNumber. When such > > ADD requests are found, the overlay searches the directory for the > > largest uidNumber, then automatically adds a uidNumber attribute of > > largest+1 to the entry being added. > > Interesting. Perhaps instead, your overlay should just maintain a fixed > entry with a copy of the largest uidNumber in it, instead of searching the > entire tree all the time.
It may be even nicer if it could be configured to use the sambaUnixIdPool method, which is supported by a number of LDAP frontend tools (such as smbldap-tools). Then the use of both wouldn't result in breakage. If you don't know how this works, I can provide some details ... However, this is quite nice ... Regards, Buchan
