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.
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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