Bug#25882: PROPOSED] u/gid 100 should be statically allocated
On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 05:35:56PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > I had cause to look in /etc/passwd recently, and found that several
> > system accounts had inherited my gid, 100:
> > sync:*:4:100:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
> > games:*:5:100:games:/usr/games:
> > man:*:6:100:man:/var/catman:
> Or alternatively allocate one of the unused groups in the 0-99 range
> for this explicit purpose if a group other than `nogroup' is required.
Please see the discussion in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/25/25882-b.html#m5
In summary, changing this group is a risky thing to do on all the
Debian systems currently installed (it requires messing with people's
filesystems); the current behaviour has been standard "forever" on Debian
(and hasn't resulted in a slew of bug reports); and having a variable
group number requires changes to other packages.
I'd appreciate it if you (or someone else who'd rather an alternate
solution) address the problems outlined at the above url at any rate.
Cheers,
aj
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