POSIX IDs, SIDs and IDRanges in IPA

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POSIX UID\GIDs

UNIX-like systems, RHEL in particular, use POSIX attributes to work with users and groups - User IDs or UIDs and Group IDs or GIDs respectively. UIDs, like GIDs, are represented via 32bit numeric value, which translates to 4,2...

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