Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!emory!gatech!udel!princeton!siemens!steve From: steve@arezzo.siemens.com (Steve Giovannetti) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Single site-wide uid space Message-ID: Date: 1 Nov 90 15:15:00 GMT Sender: news@siemens.siemens.com Distribution: na Organization: Siemens Research and Technology Laboratories Lines: 10 Has anyone come up with schemes for maintaining a single site-wide uid space? I am in the process of developing one for our site. The problem is a little tricky if you're talking about a site that is large enough not to distribute a single password file. The advantages of a single space are obvious when you do a lot of NFS cross mounting. I was thinking of a central uid database that would take a unique identification number from the person and hash it into a uid. Any thoughts? SGG