Re: [syntaxis@gmail.com: Re: portrserve, gidreserve, was Re: Debian Weekly News - October 25th]
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, D. Joe Anderson wrote:
>
> As per the recommendation below, I'm forwarding this.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Andrew Saunders <syntaxis@gmail.com> -----
>
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:23:08 +0100
> From: Andrew Saunders <syntaxis@gmail.com>
> To: deejoe@raccoon.com
> Subject: Re: portrserve, gidreserve, was Re: Debian Weekly News - October 25th
>
> On 10/25/05, D. Joe Anderson <deejoe@raccoon.com> wrote:
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> > You know, a gidreserve or uidreserve would be useful too.
> > ${EMPLOYER} maps the group "users" to gid 101 instead of what
> > Debian uses, 100. If one doesn't stop at a completely
> > bare-bones base install to reserve gid 101 to allow the
> > conversion from users=100 to users=101, it gets taken up by the
> > next package that needs a low, but assigned-at-install-time,
> > gid.
>
> Very interesting, but why did you send this to -user? I recommend you
> re-post this to debian-devel so that the devs actually become aware of
> it.
Edit /etc/adduser.conf.
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