Yes I was talking about FDS :) Well atleast I can hope that more people want these features so they get added in :). I have created a wiki article on the installation if anyone is interested. http://wiki.unixcraft.com/display/MainPage/Fedora+Directory+Server 2008/8/11 solarflow99 <solarflow99 at gmail.com> > > > On 8/11/08, Kashif Ali <snake007uk at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> After spending a long weekend, configuring Fedora-DS to have central >> autentication + Central home dirs, I now have two issues which I would like >> to know if anyone can help me with. >> >> 1) Currently when adding a new user, I have to manually goto advanced >> options and add a value called posixgroup to the object class, this is so >> that groupID have a name and you dont see the error GroupID name not found >> when logging onto a box. Is there anyway to update the default user >> template, so that, when you enable posixaccount, posixgroup objectclass is >> automatically added? thus removing the manual process? >> > > This is in the FDS console you are talking about right? This would be nice > to have, but I guess unless you can change the java code, its still less > flexible in this way. Often people will use a different front end such as > ldapadmin, while the FDS console is preferred for controlling replication, > etc. > > 2) Is there anyway to get the directory server generate UNIQUE UID/GID >> based on last uid created. Ideally I would like the range to start from 5000 >> and finish at 8000. The automatic procedure would just use the next >> available uid/gid in the list, again removing the need for the user to check >> and make sure the id is unique. >> > > > It looks like most front ends favour choosing a random one, then require > you to set it manually to what you want. This is to avoid possible > conflicts without having to build in a way to check for this, I agree it > should be an available option though. > > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1965645&forum_id=305548&abmode=1 > > > > any help with either of these issues would be much appreciated. >> >> Regards >> >> Kashif >> >> >> -- >> Fedora-directory-users mailing list >> Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users >> >> > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20080811/9eb02ac4/attachment.html
