To fully communicate with the community requires an understanding of a number of basic concepts and associated terminology. These are based on the specific technologies used and Sakai's way of doing things. The concepts and terminology are explained in this section.
The first concept is the difference between a user's name, account, and internal ID. You will often come across the internal ID if you manage users and sites. In the previous screenshot of the User tool (the tool, that the administrator uses for resetting passwords or changing e-mail addresses), the tool displays the user's internal ID at the bottom.
The internal ID is a randomly generated string that is very unlikely to be repeated (perhaps once in twenty-thousand lifetimes of the universe). The internal ID points to a unique object within Sakai and is extremely user-unfriendly. The data design calls the user ID. The Enterprise ID (EID). The EID is unique throughout the enterprise and consistent for...