[Engine-devel] Any reason to use UUID instead of name or dn?

[Juan Hernandez]

Hello all,

I am working on a series of changes with the objective to simplify the 
LDAP layer and make it more generic. One of the things that I would like 
to do is to use the name or dn attributes to identify the users/group 
instead of the UUIDs as we currently do. Can someone explain me if there 
is any powerful reason to use the directory specific UUIDs (objectGUID 
in ActiveDirectory, nsUniqueId in RHDS, etc) instead of user/group names 
or distinguished names?

Thanks in advance,
Juan Hernandez
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