Thanks John and everyone else. It's only performing binds for Apache, and
sssd, as I do not allow anon binds to the LDAP server. This particular
account does not perform any interactive logins on *Nix boxes.
Thanks,
Douglas Duckworth, MSc, LFCS
HPC System Administrator
Scientific Computing Unit
Physiology and Biophysics
Weill Cornell Medicine
E: doug(a)med.cornell.edu
O: 212-746-6305
F: 212-746-8690
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 9:18 PM, John Lewis <jl(a)hyperbolicinnovation.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 09:32 -0400, Douglas Duckworth wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Do I need uidNumber for Service Accounts used for application /
> > server binding if this user won't actually be resolved by sssd or
> > nslcd?
> >
> > I set a very high uidNumber but eventually this will conflict with
> > users as in my ignorance I didn't put this in a lower range.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Douglas Duckworth, MSc, LFCS
> > HPC System Administrator
> > Scientific Computing Unit
> > Physiology and Biophysics
> > Weill Cornell Medicine
> > E: doug(a)med.cornell.edu
> > O: 212-746-6305
> > F: 212-746-8690
>
> It depends on weather your service account needs to login to a UNIX
> compliant system or not. If the account doesn't have a uid, it will
> most likely not be able to login as a standard UNIX account via LDAP.
>
> If the binds go directly to an application without going through an OS
> authentication layer, for example a web user login, it probably doesn't
> matter either way whether the account has a uidNumber set or not. If
> you have an interaction with sssd or nslcd in the middle, you are going
> to need the uidNumber attribute set.
>