On 7/14/06, Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to do things like validate that usernames, and userids are > unique. It could be done by enumerating the existing values from the > LDAP directory, but I can't see how to do it, together with the update > as a transaction. That, however, I don't believe you can do. But, really, do you need to be unique in more than one thing? If not, and I suspect not, then you make that your dn, and you simply insert your new record. If the insert fails, there was a duplicate, and if it succeeds, there wasn't.
Yes they both need to be unique, the username and the userid are human readable and machine readable (int) representations of the user account, they correspond to the first and third fields respectively in /etc/passwd -- Rick DeNatale IPMS/USA Region 12 Coordinator http://ipmsr12.denhaven2.com/ Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
