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@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.