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Passwd/Group changes proposal v2



Philippe Troin:
> * Qmail:
> Will allocate 7 UIDs and 1 GID in the 0-99 range. Christian, would 
> you please send me the exact names you want ASAP ?
...
> * Enforcement of Ian Jackson's policy. That means that qmail might 
> then be relocated into higher UID/GID space.

...
> If anyone has any complaints, criticisms, applauses, etc about this, 
> please reply ASAP, I intend to get all the rex fixes done by the end 
> of the week, and probabl earlier than that.

I object, I'm afraid: changing the id associated with a name is
practically impossible.  Please allocate qmail's ids above 65000.  We
can have qmail depend on an approprate version of adduser.

Ian.

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