[CalendarServer-users] uid uniqueness

[Jakob Peterhänsel]

Ahh..... these are taken from the user & groups in the OS, and the OS has NO limit on this, so UID is only uniqe within each part: Users & Groups.

There is nothing stopping you from having a 'admin' user AND a 'admin' group.

Actually, OS X does this aaaaallllll.. the time!


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On 23/11/2009, at 11.22, Guy wrote:

> generally speaking... GID and UID should always be unique... In calendar server this is also true... I can see no reason why you'd want to have them the same.
> 
> The calendar server users the UID to identify the object (user or group) the event is referring to.. If they are not unique then the results are likely to be unexpected.
> 
> ---Guy 
> 
> On 23 Nov 2009, at 10:06, Dirk wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Question: guids in the accounts.xml configuration file are globally unique, ok. But what about the uids? Do group and user uids use the same "name space"? Can there be a group with uid "admin" and a user with uid "admin"? I was not able to find any docu about this.
>> 
>> Greetings,
>>  Dirk
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