Fedora directory users - Jun 2007 - Installing using yum, admin server & automatic uid

Hi,

We are in the process of migrating our NIS to FDS. We''ve been 
experimenting with FDS 1.0.4 for some time now and we managed to sync it 
with AD and have our *nix clients authenticating using TLS. Last week I 
installed FDS on Fedora 7 using yum. We have the base server functioning 
but it seems too hard to maintain it without the admin server. Does 
anybody knows if I can get the admin server using cvs? And something 
else, how we take advantage of automatic uid? I''m creating accounts 
using Softerra''s LDAP Administrator. I''ve created a custom
template and
set uid to optional but when I''m trying to create an account I getting 
an error message.

Andreas

Andreas Kekkou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are in the process of migrating our NIS to FDS. We''ve been 
> experimenting with FDS 1.0.4 for some time now and we managed to sync 
> it with AD and have our *nix clients authenticating using TLS. Last 
> week I installed FDS on Fedora 7 using yum. We have the base server 
> functioning but it seems too hard to maintain it without the admin 
> server. Does anybody knows if I can get the admin server using cvs?
Not yet.  We''re working on it.
> And something else, how we take advantage of automatic uid?
You mean the new distributed numeric assignment plugin in Fedora DS 1.1 
(that is, the version of fedora-ds-base available via F7
yum)?
> I''m creating accounts using Softerra''s LDAP
Administrator. I''ve
> created a custom template and set uid to optional but when I''m
trying
> to create an account I getting an error message.
What error message?  What exactly are you trying to do?
>
> Andreas
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What I''m trying to do is to create users (object class posixAccount)
and
don''t have to provide uid manually. I''m not sure how I can
achieve this
since uid is mandatory attribute for posixAccount. In FDS''s website, 
under Recent News it is mentioned that Fedora DS gets posix/unix 
automatic uid generation (02/08/2007).  If this is called distributed 
numeric assignment plugin, then this is the feature I want to use. As 
I''ve mentioned all ready I''m not running admin server so I
don''t know if
this plugin is installed or configured.

Andreas

Richard Megginson wrote:
> Andreas Kekkou wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are in the process of migrating our NIS to FDS. We''ve been 
>> experimenting with FDS 1.0.4 for some time now and we managed to sync 
>> it with AD and have our *nix clients authenticating using TLS. Last 
>> week I installed FDS on Fedora 7 using yum. We have the base server 
>> functioning but it seems too hard to maintain it without the admin 
>> server. Does anybody knows if I can get the admin server using cvs?
> Not yet.  We''re working on it.
>> And something else, how we take advantage of automatic uid?
> You mean the new distributed numeric assignment plugin in Fedora DS 
> 1.1 (that is, the version of fedora-ds-base available via F7 yum)?
>> I''m creating accounts using Softerra''s LDAP
Administrator. I''ve
>> created a custom template and set uid to optional but when I''m
trying
>> to create an account I getting an error message.
> What error message?  What exactly are you trying to do?
>>
>> Andreas
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>> Fedora-directory-users mailing list
>> Fedora-directory-users@redhat.com
>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
>>   
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