They are the ONLY logins that are unique across campus. By keying everything to the central LDAP server we are trying to get MOST of our campus-wide electronic resource systems onto one login and password system. Remedy uses the same EUID data as LDAP, but uses different Login Names for Computer Support Staff to TRY to make things easier for the heaviest system users. Computing Center staff accounts and Remedy Computer Support staff accounts have been changed to match NetWare accounts names wherever possible. The first question many faculty and staff have about the EUID system is why it is not the same as their NetWare or GroupWise account.
Further explanation is necessary.
Historically, NetWare and GroupWise accounts were created locally on each server by departmental network managers and their staff, usually without any attempt to ensure their uniqueness on the campus. In fact, they cannot even be correlated to one. This will NOT be done for the much more numerous student accounts. Several things have to happen first. It will take a long time to hand post every one of over 14,000 entries in NDS with the unique UID keys.