crazy uidNumbers in OD

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We’ve recently had a problem with OD creating new users with very “high” uidNumber values. The number of digits seems to continue growing until finally a new record has a negative uidNumber. Our OpenDirectory master is currently running OS X Server 10.4.7.

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Recently we have been doing a lot of imports using dsimport – it is the beginning of the school year so we needed to add a lot of accounts. We also have a FileMaker based management tool that uses dsimport to add records to OD. In both cases we currently use the  “-s” flag in dsimport to set the starting uidNumber to 9000. Even so, there doesn’t seem to be any sense to the way uidNumbers are currently incrementing. They seem to stay in a “series” for a while, then they appear to make some crazy jump in magnitude, then stay in series a bit again……. wash, rinse, repeat. Until finally you get to a point where you end up with a negative value.

At this point the negative value is assigned using WGM as well as dsimport. We are able to reset a uidNumber after addition to OD but that is a lowsy solution.

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: MacTroll[/u]

File this as a bug with Apple. And then have your FMP export actually assign UIDs to the import files. You’ll get exactly what you want then.

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Yeah, the bummer is that I’m gonna have to have my FMP database discern available numbers. It actually used to do this before I, uh…….
didn’t think I needed it anymore. 🙄

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