[Freeipa-devel] Adding GUID to the user

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 09:10 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote:
> 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.

Is the format the only difference?
Aren't there rules on how to build the GUID in term of what data to use
etc ?

Simo.