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Re: qmail should use different uids



On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 01:55:51PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> qmail currently uses uids in the range 71-76. I strongly feel that we
> should not allocate such a large range of uids in the small 1-99 range
> for a non-free program such as qmail.
> 
> We have a range for static uids and gid which qmail should use instead.
> As maintainer of the base-passwd package I'll appoint qmail the range
> 63450 to 63455 . Please update the qmail-package to use that instead.

This gets better and better. Do you have a way to resolve the conflict
when I install a new debian machine into an existing debian environment
and it uses uids already assigned to something else?

Mike Stone

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