On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:15:09 -0500 Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> wrote: > [Re-sent due to inability to properly address email.] > > Section 10.2 of policy currently describes uid and gid classes covering > the range of 0-65535. This appears to no longer be comprehensive: on a > current system running a 2.4.18 kernel and libc6 2.3.1-17, I'm able to > assign 32-bit userids to accounts and reference these accounts in file > ownerships, su to them, etc. Should Debian Policy be expanded to > address this greatly increased range of available ids? I certainly agree with the general idea, as well as the specific proposal of allocating 2^16 UIDs for Samba's idmap usage. That being said, will Sarge release with the minimum requisites for the 2^32 UIDs? If so, I'm happy. But somebody should ask the RM to be sure. Otherwise, I would think it'd have to wait until Sarge+1. Specifically, quota stuff. Every tree but Marcello's has implemented 32 bit quotas, as far as I know, but not his. So 32 bit quotas aren't "official" yet. Might need Xu to patch the default kernel images.
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