What does Use System Assigned UID mean into the UNIX Attributes ADS account template tab?

Products

• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal
• CA Risk Analytics
• CA Secure Cloud SaaS - Arcot A-OK (WebFort)
• CLOUDMINDER ADVANCED AUTHENTICATION
• CA Secure Cloud SaaS - Advanced Authentication
• CA Secure Cloud SaaS - Identity Management
• CA Secure Cloud SaaS - Single Sign On

Issue/Introduction

Question:

From the Unix attributes tab of an Active Directory account or account template property sheet;

What does Use System Assigned UID mean?

Answer:

It means that when adding the user to a NIS domain and there is no value for "uidNumber" provided, and so requesting to use the next available "uidNumber" 

then the next available "uidNumber" is found as the attribute value "msSFU30MaxUidNumber" 

under the "CN=<YOUR_DOMAIN>,CN=ypservers,CN=ypServ30,CN=RpcServices,CN=System" DN branch from your ADS. 

 

Our ADS CCS plug-in agent gets this ADS msSFU30MaxUidNumber attribute value to set the uid number of the new account in this case. 

Environment

Release:
Component: IDMGR