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Re: Get Max uidNumber ...


"C.Lee Taylor" wrote:
> 
> Greetings ...
> 
>         I search the archives and found that there was a few ideas how to do
> this, so I thought that I would though out my idea and see you guys bash
> it ... no pun intended ... I know this would be slow if one was tring to
> bring in more than a few users, but then I use it just to add a few
> users at a time ... I also believe this would not be a good idea to have
> more than one user adding in users, because the uidNumber could go up
> while we import the next user.
> 

I added an maxAccount objectClass wit "MUST uidNumber..." and update it
by one...
but test before call to the ldap_add if the uid was "stolen" by other
concurrent process... if the uid is in use perform a new maxAccount read
cycle...

Ignacio
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