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- From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.large,mi.misc
- Subject: Re: LISA VI paper availible via anon ftp
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 19:29:15 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan CITI
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- References: <1dmrsdINNcs4@nigel.msen.com> <scs.721401144@hela.iti.org> <vanepp.721411740@sfu.ca>
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- In article <vanepp.721411740@sfu.ca>, vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) writes:
-
- ...
- UM is a lot bigger than SFU, and some of the issues that we managed to slid
- through (a common uid space for the whole campus for instance) will be
- more difficult at UM...
-
- Actually, that's one of the only parts that has been done here. We've got a
- pretty nifty distributed system for assigning uids called uniqname. I think
- there's a paper on it somewhere (Usenix?). Some large fraction of the
- University community now has a unique Unix uid.
-