[Samba] Wither "uidNumber" and "gidNumber"? (was: Re: ldbedit: no matching records - cannot edit (newly-created user))

[Jim Seymour]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:36:31 -0300
Guilherme Boing <kolt+samba at frag.com.br> wrote:

> Are you using nslcd by any chance ?
[snip]

Nope.


On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 18:56:20 +0200
buhorojo <buhorojo.lcb at gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]
> getent returns primaryGroupID, not gidNumber

I can see that.

So what is the point of gidNumber in a user's record if it does
essentially nothing other than to take up space, possibly duplicate
another entry (primaryGroupID) or possibly be misleading?

Regards,
Jim
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