Hannes,
The Netscape Dir 4.x has a UID uniqueness plugin that ensures that uid
is unique within a suffix. You can disable this if you really want to
but Netscape does not recommend it.
What you are looking are talking about is the dn. The directory is
telling you that the uid as an attribute of the entry is not unique.
A better question to ask is *why* you want multiple uids within a
suffix?
Ian
Hannes Wornig wrote:
> Hi out there!
>
> First I've to state that I'm a newbie in the subject of LDAP.
> So maybe this question is a little bit stupid for some of you.
>
> Nevertheless ... I'm currently fixed to this problem:
>
> Why is it impossible to have the same UIDs in different
> subtrees? I.e. if I try to add a UID in a subtree of my
> organization, where this UID already exists in a different
> subtree of this organization, I'll stumble over the LDAP
> error #68 ("already exists").
>
> DN: uid="xxx",ou="some_ou",o="my_org",c="AT"
> DN: uid="xxx",ou="different_ou",o="my_org",c="AT"
>
> Is it really impossible to have the same UID in different
> subtrees of an LDAP-directory?
>
> TIA for your help,
>
> Hannes
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