Re: Vitamin D
On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote:
>
> Speaking here as base-passwd maintainer: If a package like Doom needs a
> uid/gid, it should create it's own in one of the available spaces
> (100-999 I think, I'd have to check). If you don't want it to go around
> "blindly creating users", then ask permission in the preinst script.
>
> Fixed uid/gid numbers should only be for packages which _really_ need to
> have them uniform on all systems running Debian. I don't think Doom
> counts.
>
Just a tiny correction here. I was talking about dcom (which for those
who might be unfamiliar, is the guts of Microsofts ActiveX.) not doom but
I get what you're saying. I doubt if dcom will need a specific UID.
-- Jaldhar
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