Re: compare uidNumber in LDAP

[Brian Leung <brianlk@pacific.net.hk>]

hello,

i think the perl db interface DBD-LDAP can help you.

Regards,
Brian Leung
System Engineer
Pacific Supernet

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Derek Simkowiak wrote:

> > My LDAP server's objects contain attribute uidNumber and i want to find
> > out which is the maximum uidNumber.
>
> 	I have this exact same problem!  Heh.  Let me guess: You want to
> find the maximum uidNumber so that you can increment it by one and assign
> that as the uidNumber for the next entry...?
>
> > It is trouble that i use ldapsearch to find out which is maxmium so i
> > find in cpan.perl.org.
>
> 	I haven't tried to solve this problem yet.  I was hoping there was
> some kind of auto-increment feature of LDAP that I haven't found yet.
> But if not, is the best thing to simply run a search?
>
> 	Surely this is a common problem.  I imagine that the people who
> came up with the posixAccount schema thought of a solution to this, or at
> least, a "best practice".
>
> 	What does everyone else do?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Derek
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