[Samba] Re: smbldap-tools: only incremental UID's?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Jérôme Fenal wrote:

| The idea would be to add support to smbldap-tools for an
| uidpool in the directory. One more LDAP search to find the
| next uidNumber, but many many less than  doing incremental
| searches to find the hole to fill, and moreover it
| solves your problem. uidPool is somewhat described here :
| http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200402/msg00272.html
|
| It is also, as said in the mail, described in Gerald's
| book. Gerald may  provide more details, or you may buy the
| book and patch smbldap-tools.

Just as an FYI....

Samba includes a variant of this in the samba.schema file
and this is how winbindd allocates uids and gids when using
"idmap backend = ldap:ldap://....".





cheers, jerry

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