[Freeipa-users] Re: Account creation via API not assigning uidNumber

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