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



On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 01:27:38PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Does anyone think there's a need for another reserved ID range somewhere
> above 16 bits to replace this one?

Well, we could just reserve the upper half of the 32 bit space (and
document 2^32-2 as (NFS) nobody and 2^32-1 as don't use at the same
time.

Bastian

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