It was amusing to read the comment about the flat UID/GID namespace being a prob...

		lukeh 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Netwo... It was amusing to read the comment about the flat UID/GID namespace being a problem, identified as far back as 1984. This is something that DCE addressed by using a larger namespace (UUIDs), and Windows finally got right using a hierarchical one (SIDs).