RID, PrimaryGID in LDAP

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 17:28, Chaz wrote:
> "Michael Tang" <michael.tang at bullinfo.com.hk> wrote in message
> news:NGBBKPCJKNGLEOLCBKMBCEFECBAA.michael.tang at bullinfo.com.hk...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found out two attribues in LDAP.  RID, PrimaryGID.  Could you explain
> what
> > is it and what value should I should put in if I am in a very standalone
> > environment. i.e. No need to care the existing windows server. Just one
> > openldap server and one/some samba server on Linux.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> 
> Michael,
> 
> RID is equal to (UID*2)+1000. This is required for machine accounts, and is
> not needed for user accounts. If the RID is incorrect, the machine will not
> be able to join the doma. PrimaryGID is the id of the primary group the
> account is in. You will need to create a group (posixGroup schema).

This is a bit confused.  This is a mandatory attributes in LDAP, for all
types of user.

Andrew Bartlett

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