[Samba] creating new users - missing uidNumber

Stefan G. Weichinger
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:20:47 -0000

Am 2017-02-01 um 14:49 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:

> If you just run 'samba-tool user create testuser' you will get a
user
> without a uidNumber. See example5 from 'samba-tool user create
--help'
> for how to create a user with a uidNumber, but there is a gotcha, you
> will need to track the next uidNumber or gidNumber yourself.

yes, we figured that out and tested it already, thanks

I will write some script or alias to read the highest uidnumber from
LDAP for their admin.

A bit strange to have to do that, but it seems to be so for samba domain
servers, right?