Bug#582495: debian-policy: extend UID range of user accounts

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:

> 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.

Seconded.  I agree with just releasing this UID space.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>