Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

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Subject: Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user
From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 11:48:35 +1100
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On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:13:13AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> However, the idea of one UID per daemon is (IMHO) a really horrible
> solution, too, as you end up having more UIDs for daemons then
> users. 

Why is that a problem? There are 65536 available UIDs.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>

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