[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 199 convert uidnumber to string

[Rob Crittenden]

Jason Gerard DeRose wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 16:31 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> We need to convert the uidnumber to a string when adding/modifying users 
>> to avoid a type error on the LDAP side.
>>
>> Pavel, I'm not sure whether this is handled automagically or not in your 
>> version of the plugin.
>>
>> rob
> 
> ack.
> 
> This is fine as a stop gap, but we really need a better solution in the
> long run.
> 
> So the UID is always in integer, correct?  Do all LDAP "types" need to
> be sent as strings, or is this just a case where we are using a more
> restrictive type in IPA than the attribute in LDAP?
> 

Pavel is working on some smarter schema handling in the new LDAP plugin. 
  I think that will handle the type conversions for us.

rob
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