Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Automatically incrementing uidNumber

[Rich Megginson]

Thanks.  I've taken this information and created a How-To for 
phpLdapAdmin: http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:phpLdapAdmin

Jeff Falgout wrote:

> >Ok, I see.  Sure.  I would love to get a list of features of other
> LDAP
> >administration tools that are not supported by the Fedora DS console.
> >1) Support auto-increment of uidNumber (other attributes?  gidNumber?)
> >2) Support for shadowAccount host based access restriction (feature of
> >DirectoryAdministrator)
> >
> >    
> >
> >>I haven't had
> >>much luck getting phpLdapAdmin working with fedora-ds (I've had some
> >>objectclass violations when creating new users - haven't spent much time
> >>trying to figure that out as I like the console much better).
> >>
> >>
> >>      
> >>
> >I'd like to get this working - can you post the error messages you're
> >seeing?  And access and errors log.
> >
> >    
> >
>
> A simple change in phpLdapAdmin allowed me to create a posix user in
> fedora-ds. In the templates/creation directory, edit the file
> new_user_template.php, search for 'value="gn"' and replace it with
> 'value="givenname"'.
>
> I'm also using groupOfUniqueNames for authentication via pam - I had to
> create a group using the custom template, selecting the groupOfUniqueNames
> objectclass and then skipped adding members to the group until after the
> object was created. When I tried to add members to the new group, the
> template for groupofnames was loaded, not groupofuniquenames, so when you
> add a member, it creates a value for the attribute member (not
> uniqueMember). I hacked the file
> templates/modification/group_of_names.php. Around line 21, " $attr_name =
> 'member'; "  I replaced member with uniqueMember - a hack, I know, but it
> worked. Now I can create the initial member as a uniqueMember.
>
> That's as far as I've gotten.
>
> Jeff
>
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