On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 08:31:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Do we have any actual users of this space? I didn't see anything in > Policy. Is there a central database listing the assignments? If > so, where may it be found? /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/README > The main justification I would have for this change is that keeping > the old 16-bit-constrained assignments fragments the 32-bit range > space unnecessarily. For checks such as being discussed, having a > contiguous user range makes things much simpler for both us and > admins. I accept that we can't change things for existing systems > where these are already being used, but it sucks to be stuck with a > 16-bit legacy for evermore even for new installs. I don't think it's practical to ever get rid of the legacy UID range fragmentation in the 16-bit space. Better would be to plan a transition to where we start numbering new user accounts from 65536 by default, instead of from 1000. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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