This one time, at band camp, Stephen Gran said: > This one time, at band camp, Russ Allbery said: > > Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> writes: > > > > > We could add all or part of this range to the dynamic range. > > > > I think we should add all of 30000-59999 to the dynamic range. I'm sure > > that Stanford isn't the only site that's already ignoring the Debian > > reservation and using those UIDs for other purposes. Does adduser > > currently avoid that range (in other words, would changes be required to > > adduser based on this change to Policy)? > > No, adduser does not treat that range specially right now. That wasn't all that helpful a response - I should probably drink more coffee before sending email. So, to be precise, what adduser does currently is to say the normal user range is 1000-29999. This is a setting in adduser.conf, easily changed by local admins and not overridden by any code checks. It would be easy enough to change the default adduser.conf if this goes into policy. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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