On 14 Jun 1999, Rob Browning wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You don't really need this, just a simple detect/backoff algorithm will do > > OK for determining the UIDs > > Could you elaborate? If you have at least two machines, I can't see > how you don't have to have a shared locking mechanism to make sure > they don't both try to add the same user to the ldap database with > different uid's, or are there some ldap semantics that allow you to > avoid the race condition.
You use the same technique as ethernet basically, both add and check if their was only one added (using a search on the ID they added) then remove and retry a new id after a delay. > (Oh, and I guess you didn't have any idea why my script was failing > with authentication problems?) Nope, I do my scripts in Python Jason
