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

[Richard 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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