Re: qmail should use different uids
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Michael Stone wrote:
> 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.
You can't be serios - WTH is so special about <100? Is this like the
millenium scare or something?
> > 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.
You will break every single qmail using system in a single blow over a
pointless asthetic issue!
It is sickening to actually go out and deliberately break non-free
soly out of spite.
Jason
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