I think I see. It doesn't enforce that UUIDs be unique, just that ACTIVE (non-removed) UUIDs are unique. Therefore I suppose the intent was that you don't want someone else stealing a removed UUID that might have belonged to someone else.
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Marcus <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Ability+to+control+the+external+id+of+first+class+objects > > I'm trying to understand why this is admin only, given that it verifies > that the UUID is unique for the resource it seems it would be safe to allow > any user to supply their preferred UUID. >
