[Freeipa-devel] User questions
Rob Crittenden
rcritten at redhat.com
Thu Jul 19 14:38:05 UTC 2007
Richard Megginson wrote:
> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> A few questions about adding a user:
>>
>> 1. With our current objectclasses we are required to include cn and sn
>> (but gn is forbidden). In a GUI it is easy to simply ask for first and
>> last name and concatenate them to get cn (and probably use it for
>> gecos too). In a CLI it is a bit awkward to ask for first name. To be
>> luseradd compatible we could require 'gecos' and split that on the
>> first space but that is likely to cause problems.
>>
>> 2. Someone is going to write a uid-generator, right? So I just need to
>> get "get_new_uid()" or something?
> Fedora DS has an auto UID generation plugin.
Ok, wasn't sure if we were going to use that.
>>
>> 3. What should the gid be set to by default? We are creating a group
>> for each user with the same username/uid?
>>
>> rob
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