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From: Ashton Davis <adavis@verticalsearchworks.com>
To: "users@directory.apache.org" <users@directory.apache.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:20:23 -0800
Subject: Feature Request: AutoIncrement fields
Thread-Topic: Feature Request: AutoIncrement fields
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I run my Linux environment authentication from Directory Server, and so I u=
se Posix users and groups.  As I continue to add users to the system, I'm f=
inding 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 S=
erver (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 sho=
uld 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), homeDirect=
ory, loginShell, etc - nothing out of the ordinary.
Then I get to uidNumber.  I have to make sure I know what uidNumber was use=
d last.  Find it.  Add one to it.  And hope nobody else has added users sin=
ce 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.

Ashton Davis
Sr. Systems Administrator
VerticalSearchWorks
760.930.7690


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