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. Obviously this process will take time, especially the resolution of duplicate names. This article may have helped you to understand why we had to programmatically generate new EUIDs for most of the campus, building on the UNIX names which have always been enforced as unique, in order to bring up a complete LDAP server for global authentication to WebCT, the Library Electronic Resources, and Remedy. The use of this system will expand even more in the future, so the concept and use of EUIDs will be with us for quite a while.