Change UID Range in work group manager 10.8

Hi there,
I about to implement an Open directory branch with 4 offices having 1 Master and 3 slaves but i need to have on each office different UID of users, is there any way to change the UID range so every time that one of my helpdesk guys create a user get the correct UID range that belongs to his office?
Hope you guys can put mi in the correct path.
Thanks.

Dare I ask why the UID is important? It plays much less of a role now that GUID is implemented. It is mostly transparent. Are you using it for purely organizational purposes?
The only way you will likely be able to do this is through a shell script to add the account outside of Apple's tools. However, you could build the script to query the directory, get a current count of users in the current prefix, and then increment up one. Values needed are really real name (John Doe), shortname (jdoe), password, and email (if different than shortname). All other values can be inferred from there.
Investigate dscl and then if you want to, use Xcode to build a GUI app to automate the process.

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