Ah I didn't realize they created one. I will go follow the ticket. Thanks!
Ashton Davis Sr. Systems Administrator VerticalSearchWorks 760.930.7690 -----Original Message----- From: Emmanuel Lécharny [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 8:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Feature Request: AutoIncrement fields Le 2/12/14 5:20 PM, Ashton Davis a écrit : > I run my Linux environment authentication from Directory Server, and so I use > Posix users and groups. As I continue to add users to the system, I'm > finding it to be an increasing inconvenience to have to find the last UID I > used and increment by one. There are programmatic ways to handle this, but > none of them truly address the issue. What we need is to have Directory > Server (and Directory Studio) handle incrementing numerical ID fields. > There's already an RFC in existence: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4525 > > Another "nice to have" would be enforcement of unique fields (uidNumber > should be able to be forced unique) > > Use case: > I'm creating a new user for my linux environment. > They get created as posixAccount, which requires uidNumber > I give them their cn, gidNumber (which is one of two right now), > homeDirectory, loginShell, etc - nothing out of the ordinary. > Then I get to uidNumber. I have to make sure I know what uidNumber was used > last. Find it. Add one to it. And hope nobody else has added users since I > last did. > > Solution: > Click uidNumber field -> check "auto-increment" and "unique" > Once I save the entry, it creates a uidNumber for me and applies it to the > field. > > I hope that's detailed enough. It's detailed enough :-) Although the right way to do that is to fill a JIRA. Hopefully, we created this JIRA yesterday : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-1956 You can follow this one to get informed when it's done. -- Regards, Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com
