Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.4.0
Severity: wishlist
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On 20/05/2010 20:43, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Something probably best left until after Squeeze! I think the
> simple check we have now will be robust enough until after then.
Alternatively, we could try to improve the current status a little bit
for squeeze.
(A system admin with about 45000 users in his system asked me about
the new /etc/profile and the apparently arbitrary limit of 29999).
The block 30000-59999 is reserved *by us*, so we can free it for user
accounts easily:
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -5849,7 +5849,7 @@
</p>
</item>
- <tag>1000-29999:</tag>
+ <tag>1000-59999:</tag>
<item>
<p>
Dynamically allocated user accounts. By default
@@ -5860,11 +5860,6 @@
</p>
</item>
- <tag>30000-59999:</tag>
- <item>
- <p>Reserved.</p>
- </item>
-
<tag>60000-64999:</tag>
<item>
<p>
Known affected packages: adduser, base-files
Fix: Trivial: s/29999/59999/
I'm looking for seconds for this proposal.
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