On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 18:10 -0500, Stamper, Brian P. (ARC-D)[Logyx LLC] wrote: > > Not until I add 1.299 billion users :)
I think you've missed the point a little bit. The reason for the high UIDs is to solve a problem that most people don't realize yet that they have. A VERY common situation is for a larger company to acquire a smaller one. When this happens, it becomes necessary to merge their two identity environments. Right now, most small companies (and a disconcerting number of large ones) have UIDs that start at 500 or 1000 in their LDAP servers (because the vast majority of these companies start out by using /etc/passwd and then dump these values to LDAP when they grow to a certain point). Now, in the case of a merger, you have two companies that likely have colliding UID ranges. If you're using IPA, however, which dedicates much higher ranges, there's a significantly greater chance that you will be able to trivially merge the users and groups without forcing one company or the other to change their IDs. (If you've ever had to do this, you'd know that this is usually a multi-month project that invariably misses something.) The decision to make the range start at 1 billion was made specifically BECAUSE the chances of a company having that many users was statistically unlikely.
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