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

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

On 05/21/2010 08:17 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.

Seconded.

Cheers

Luk