Single site-wide uid space
Tom Fitzgerald
fitz at wang.com
Tue Nov 6 13:50:33 AEST 1990
steve at arezzo.siemens.com (Steve Giovannetti) writes:
> Has anyone come up with schemes for maintaining a single site-wide uid
> space? I am in the process of developing one for our site.
We sleazed out of this one. Everyone's UID here is a function of their
telephone extension. For most people, it's just the last 4 digits of the
extension, but there are also some tricks to make sure that there are no
collisions, that nobody's ID is in the range 0 to 200, and that there is
a reserved space for UUCP logins and other inorganic accounts.
If you can't do something equally sleazy, the central database sounds like
the best bet.
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Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz at wang.com
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