Yes I can appreciate that, we have done the same thing im '500'... oops....
As an educational setup we are looking to federate worldwide, that means Shibboleth or similar....a unique UID per academic world wide might be worthwhile....there wont be 2billion academics...students...well i guess that would one day be a "ipv4" problem. Steven Jones Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE Victoria University, Wellington, NZ 0064 4 463 6272 ________________________________________ From: Rob Crittenden [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 28 October 2011 9:34 a.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: Adam Young; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Unique world wide UIDS Steven Jones wrote: > Hi, > > Well if you understand Peak Oil and that the "green revolution" was actually > truning fossil fuel into food ie we eat oil....only having 2billion UIDs wont > be a problem. > > :/ Many, many organizations start with the same uid base, 500 or 1000. When company A buys company B there are tons and tons of uid collisions. If each started at a random start point then the chances of collision, while not zero, are much lower. Our goal wasn't to guarantee uniqueness in the universe, just to make integration hopefully easier in the future when namespaces are merged. rob _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
