Re: [Fedora-directory-devel] General use questions and diffs from Netscape

[Rich Megginson]

Deas, Jim wrote:
>  I recently completed Redhats course on Directory Services and decided
> to
>  setup a test deployment using Fedora. In the course of doing this I came
>  across a couple of issues that I need to answer before I could use
>  Directory as a valid authentication system.
>
>  1) The web interface appears to create/handle group entrys different
>  from those migrated from the local files using the Redhat class altered
>  paddle scripts. From the class I remember changing the 'group' schema to
>  'groups'. End result, is there a way to create/manage 'groups' schema
>  entries using the Directory web page that match those created when my
>  existing /etc/group was migrated using the altered paddle scripts. If
>  not, why does Redhat suggest this change in their class?
>     
Hmm - looks like we need to add support for posix groups to the ds 
gateway . . .
>  2) Is there a way that the Directory web page can be used to create
> new
>  user accounts that include an autogen uid and gid? Currently it appears
>  to create a new user with all the posix data turned off. This is fine
>  from a management position as long as a uid generator exist to keep me
>  safe from producing duplicate uid/gid numbers.
>     
There is no uid/gid number generator.
>  Any help is appreciated.
>  Best Regards,
>  JD
>   
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