I haven't been following the whole thread very well, but I do know that Novell's Identity Manager product, or even Access Manager 3, could resolve a lot of the issues very nicely.

Jared

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"David Nicol" davidnicol@gmail.com 01/09/07 2:19 PM >>>

On 1/9/07, Jon Pruente jdpruente@gmail.com wrote:

tell the sysadmins what to change on the hundreds/thousands of systems they have to consolidate and unify UIDs. It was then up the the admins to make changes as needed so that it wouldn't break anything during the process.

Jon.

The argument against unifying UIDs accross your enterprise is that it allows for security holes to become larger. Hopefully DST has some continuing intrusion monitoring in place before (or at least contemporaneously with) their unification effort.