Re: qmail should use different uids
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 05:51:54PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Michael Stone wrote:
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> > 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.
We could make base-passwd a virtual package depending on either
base-passwd-qmail or base-passwd-non-qmail.
But seriously, I'd personally be a bit annoyed at having to reconfigure
several dozen systems. It's not like these are just personal playstations;
they are all production systems and such a change is a serious and
time consuming matter.
What is the gain?
>
> 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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