[Freeipa-devel] dna_plugin

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Tue Nov 13 18:28:44 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 12:37 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> I finally got around to testing the uid/gid auto-generation thinger.
> 
> I commented out the hardcoded uidnumber['501'] and adding a user 
> automatically generates a uid. So that's good.
> 
> But each user also needs a gidNumber. What should that value be? I don't 
> think we've ever come to a resolution on that.

it depends on whether we want to keep doing the insane thing the OS does
(ie a group for each user by default) in which case we should also
create that group (bleah) an make gid == uid, or use a more saner
default, create a "Users" group and make that be their default primary
group on creation.

Simo.




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