Fw: Performance of smbldap-user tools when adding large numbers of users

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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John P Janosik wrote:

| This isn't totally a Samba issue but I am hoping
| someone here can provide some ideas how to update the
| smbldap tools to perform well with large numbers of users
| and groups.  The tools currently get the next gid or uid
| to use by iterating through every group or user in ldap
| to find the maximum uid/gid currently used.  I would like
| to change to tools to store a next gid and uid in ldap but
| I don't know where it would go.

That's what this is for (from samba.schema):

## used for idmap_ldap module
objectclass ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.7165.1.2.2.7 NAME 'sambaUnixIdPool'
~        SUP top AUXILIARY
~        DESC 'Pool for allocating UNIX uids/gids'
~        MUST ( uidNumber $ gidNumber ) )


cheers, jerry
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