On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:10:26PM +0100 or thereabouts, Alessandra Forti wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> >Pool accounts *must* be decimally numbered, that's how the system works.
>
> I think this is just a practice to make management easier. It is like
> calling a cluster machines somename001,somename002... rather than
> somename,someothername....
>
> I don't think there should be any constrain how you call things in the
> code anyway.
Yes this true, if you call your accounts
aa
ab
ac
ad
a4
a4345adfa
and maps users to .a
it works perfectly well.
Steve
>
> YAIM doesn't care about the pool accounts names as long as they are
> prefixed and have a UID and a GID for each in the user.conf.
>
> cheers
> alessandra
>
> >There are two formats, a mapping of a DN to e.g. "dteamsgm" is a fixed
> >mapping to an account called "dteamsgm", whereas a mapping to ".dteam"
> >maps to accounts called "dteamnnn" where nnn is a number. The reason for
> >the failure in this case is that the generated mapping said ".dteamsgm"
> >and there are no accounts called "dteamsgm001" etc.
> >
> >Stephen
> >
>
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