On Tuesday 18 December 2007 10:38 pm, dandantheitman wrote: > On 18/12/2007, Namachivayam <npurusothaman at perisoftware.com> wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > For adding users (with Posix Attributes), changing the > > userpassword, we are using these scripts : > > _For creating users with Posix Attribute :_ > > create a file for example with the content : > > <snip> > > Hi Namachivayan, > Thanks for your help. What I need to do is figure out a way to use > ldapadd rather than using the ldif file as I would like automate the > UID generation. I found this objectClass in samba somewhere, it's basically just an object that holds a gidNumber and a uidNumber value. When my add_user script runs, it will first find this object, grab the values, create the user, then increment them as needed. objectClasses: ( UnixIdPool-oid NAME 'UnixIdPool' SUP top STRUCTURAL MUST ( cn $ gidNumber $ uidNumber ) X-ORIGIN 'user defined' ) Ryan
