On 24 Oct 2018, at 12:47, Rob Crittenden <rcritten@redhat.com> wrote:

Callum Smith via FreeIPA-users wrote:

Dear All,

When using the API to create an account, if I don't specify the
uidnumber I get this error:

missing attribute "uidNumber" required by object class "posixAccount"

I was expecting the uidNumber to function thus: "system will assign one
if not provided"

Am I missing something?

You need to set uidnumber to -1 to have DNA automatically assign a value
(pre v3.2 the magic number is 999).

rob