Kolab POSIX Users/Groups default uidNumber/gidNumber

[Eric Renfro]

Thank you Jan!

That's exactly what I needed. Changed things up, and even split up my configuration 
for websites into vhosts per this example useful github puppet concept:

https://github.com/kolab-groupware/puppet-module-kolab/tree/development/templates/webserver/sites

Now I'm just about ready to finally move the rest of my migrations over. 

Eric Renfro


On Monday, October 26, 2015 08:41:21 PM Jan Kowalsky wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> look here:
> 
> https://git.kolab.org/diffusion/WAP/browse/master/lib/api/kolab_api_service_
> form_value.php;8eff748533a7b47d1d8156bbb3212647ca0f5d1f$885
> 
>             $highest_uidnumber = $conf->get('uidnumber_lower_barrier');
>             if (!$highest_uidnumber) {
>                 $highest_uidnumber = 999;
>             }
> 
> 
> similar for gid-numbers.
> 
> So, if there is neither an existing posix user entry in your ldap the
> 1000 nor configuration value in kolab.conf 1000 is choosen.
> 
> so just add
> 
> uidnumber_lower_barrier = YOUR_NUMBER
> gidnumber_lower_barrier = YOUR_NUMBER
> 
> 
> to kolab.conf
> 
> this should do it ...
> 
> Best Regards
> Jan
> 
> Am 23.10.2015 um 18:33 schrieb Eric Renfro:
> > Right now Kolab 3.4 seems to default generation of default uidNumber and
> > gidNumber at 1,000, which is generally considerable as bad practice with
> > LDAP stored user information, dis-allowing, or more so conflicting local
> > users vs LDAP users.
> > 
> > How do you change the generation to start at a higher number, for example
> > 2000?
> > 
> > I've found an alternative way to get around this by setting the attributes
> > of them to use generated, but not read-only values so I can manually put
> > the numbers in, but this is... Not very wise to keep up. ;)
> > 
> > Eric Renfro

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