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Re: new static uid/gid needed (ups) .. OK



On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:

> to rely on a static user id other than root(0) should be threaded as
> bug.
>
> we don't consider anything (except root = 0) worth to have a static id.
> if the program looks up the id by name, and you create a rpm from the deb
> (useing alien), it will work on redhat, suse, ... too.

Ok, you've got me. It'll be dynamic, adduser --system etc.
 
> only reasonable thing is : everything except root is dunamic. i heard
> a rumor that lsb (linux standard base) will rule this.

then the policy (3.2) need to be changed, at least to state that it's not
a good idea go static. I'm not a maintainer yet, would you find someone
who'd post it into BTS?

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