[Freeipa-users] Why not unix UIDs (numbers and range)

[Steven Jones]

um so I thought there was a 65k limit?

I have way more numerals than that.

Also I need to pick up that UID from somewhere as its part of a users identify in the identity managment system we have....how would I go about sucking that out of IPA after the account is provisioned?

regards

Steven
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From: freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com [freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com] on behalf of Stephen Gallagher [sgallagh at redhat.com]
Sent: Monday, 23 May 2011 11:23 p.m.
To: freeipa-users at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Why not unix UIDs (numbers and range)

On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 04:42 +0000, Steven Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why doesnt IPA use std unix UIDs? and how does that translate into Unix permissions on a client if it does not?
>
> BTW neat install, under 10mins and its up!


FreeIPA does use standard UNIX UIDs and GIDs. By default, however,
they're generated automatically behind the scenes so that the
administrator doesn't need to manage them. FreeIPA does this so it can
ensure that there are no duplicate IDs in the system, which is a common
problem in unmanaged LDAP environments.

On the various client machines, you can see that the users have UIDs and
GIDs by performing 'getent passwd <username>'.