[Freeipa-users] Change UID range

[Steven Jones]

Hi,

I was sort of a like mind, but the advantage of the idea of avoiding clashes made enough sense for me to live with it.  We will be doing Federation potentially worldwide and if a person from anywhere else has a unique UID and is part of a unique UID range at another Uni site that doesnt clash Im all for making my life easier.....

regards


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From: freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com [freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com] on behalf of Stamper, Brian P. (ARC-D)[Logyx LLC] [brian.p.stamper at nasa.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2011 10:34 a.m.
To: freeipa-users at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Change UID range


It’s enough of an issue that I’d spend the 1-2 hours to reinstall my server and 1 client.  I just find it really odd that the default would be so high.  I’m all for avoiding conflicts, but I can’t think of too many systems that would have a billion users.  The help on the server installer says the idstart is random.  I’d rather skip 1000 UIDs than 1.3 billion, I just find the numbers unwieldy.  Browsing the web, it looks like the default is random between 1m and 2^31.  I’d just prefer it be in the 4-6 digit range, as I do still use UIDs numerically on occasion.

I have no issue with the default being what it is, most people may not care what their UID range actually is.  I just want to know if it can be changed manually or if I have to reinstall.  I’m still in an evaluation phase with a testing system anyway, so I’ll just add it to my notes when I deploy to something I might use in production.

-brian

On 6/13/11 3:22 PM, "Steven Jones" <Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz<UrlBlockedError.aspx>> wrote:

Hi,

The docs say they do this to try and avoid clashes with other organisations in case of a merger.

Another reason I can see is possibly Shiboleth (Federation) which I/we have to do. So is changing it that much of an issue?

regards


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From: freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com<UrlBlockedError.aspx> [freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com<UrlBlockedError.aspx>] on behalf of Stamper, Brian P. (ARC-D)[Logyx LLC] [brian.p.stamper at nasa.gov<UrlBlockedError.aspx>]
Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2011 10:18 a.m.
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Subject: [Freeipa-users] Change UID range

After installing, I’ve noticed that my UIDs for freeipa start at 1.3 billion.  Now, this isn’t technically a problem, but it is ... Odd.  Is there a way to change this value after install, or am I stuck uninstalling and reinstalling with the --idstart value set to get this to a more reasonable number?

-Brian

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