I need some advice. We currently are in the process of starting to use LDAP for our accounts to authenticate. Now when I create a new LDAP account I need to assign a free gidnumber and uidnumber which can be to 1 to 9999999. My plan is to load all gidnumbers and uidnumbers that are being used into two separate mysql tables. What command could I use to find the first number that is not being used or not in the database?.
Now sometimes it could be 12 or the very highest number, because when accounts are deleted these numbers will be removed from the tables, so I need to find the next available number.
