Single site-wide uid space

[Gord Urquhart]

>> steve at arezzo.siemens.com (Steve Giovannetti) writes:
>> >      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 following was taken from a recent issue of Ralphnet-Digest:
 
  Recent work at the University of Michigan by the Institutional
  File System project (IFS) and Computer-Aided Engineering Network
  (CAEN) staff has resulted in the development and installation of
  software that will eventually ensure unique and user-specific
  login names across the entire UM campus. To date the software,
  UNIQNAME, encompasses five architectures--Sun, Ultrix, BSD,
  etc.--and has approximately 9,000 registered logins. The
  newsletter article that follows (deleted) briefly describes the research
  and development the project entailed. The article has been
  reprinted from the August 10, 1990 issue of Inside ITD (an
  internal UM newsletter). For more information contact the
  project coordinator, Bill Doster (billdo at um.ifs.umich.edu). The
  full text of the paper, which will be presented at LISA IV, is
  available upon request.

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Gord Urquhart                         |   gord at atropos.ucs.ualberta.ca
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