[Samba] Manually adding Samba attributes from Perl

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 06:18, Nate Carlson wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I need to create a perl script that will add Samba attributes to existing
> LDAP accounts; basically, I just need to replicate what smbpasswd does in
> Perl.
> 
> I've found a perl module that will create the password hashes for me, so
> that part's taken care of. The one thing I'm not sure how to do is
> generate the rid and PrimaryGroupID entries. Does anyone know how these
> are generated? I've thought of just looking at the existing entries and
> adding one to the highest each time; would that be acceptable?
> 
> Thanks for any help you guys can provide!

Use 2*uid+1000 for users, 2*gid+1001 for groups.  In Samba 3.0 you have
more flexibility, but if you have any choice, stick to the algorithm.

Andrew Bartlett

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