Ahh..... these are taken from the user & groups in the OS, and the OS has NO
limit on this, so UID is only uniqe within each part: Users & Groups.
There is nothing stopping you from having a 'admin' user AND a 'admin' group.
Actually, OS X does this aaaaallllll.. the time!
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On 23/11/2009, at 11.22, Guy wrote:
> generally speaking... GID and UID should always be unique... In calendar
> server this is also true... I can see no reason why you'd want to have them
> the same.
>
> The calendar server users the UID to identify the object (user or group) the
> event is referring to.. If they are not unique then the results are likely to
> be unexpected.
>
> ---Guy
>
> On 23 Nov 2009, at 10:06, Dirk wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Question: guids in the accounts.xml configuration file are globally unique,
>> ok. But what about the uids? Do group and user uids use the same "name
>> space"? Can there be a group with uid "admin" and a user with uid "admin"? I
>> was not able to find any docu about this.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Dirk
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