[Freeipa-devel] Adding GUID to the user

[Richard Megginson]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 08:33 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote:
>   
>> Fedora DS generates the operational attribute nsUniqueID for each 
>> entry.  It is a GUID/UUID but it is formatted a little bit differently
>> e.g.
>> xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx
>> instead of the usual
>> xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx 
>>     
>
> For interoperability reasons we really need a real GUID, is it possible
> to have that ?
>   
By real do you mean formatted as 8-4-4-4-12 instead of 8-8-8-8?  It is 
possible, but it would require a lot of code changes.  Another 
possibility is that we could deprecate nsUniqueID and instead use the 
LDAP entryUUID attribute.
> Simo.
>
>   

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