Re: Chapter 15. Users & Groups: mininal UID for normal Users
On Tue, Dec 05, Johannes Poehlmann wrote:
> Chapter 15. Users & Groups is not decided on the minimal value for UIDs/GIDs:
>
> All normal users and normal user groups will
> be above the uid/gid of 100. No system required
> uid or gid is to be placed above uid/gid 99 as
> this may clash with real users imported via
> NIS or LDAP from other Unix systems. (FIXME:
> What about Red Hat's use of 500 for this? Do
> other Linux distributions all use 100? Is there
> another standard we can reference which contains
> the 100 rule?)
>
> Checking some Linuxes I realized that more Distributions avoid UID´s <500
> for normal users. This is good becauset some time in the future 99 system
> users could be not enough.
>
> I think, we should recommend or even require the UID range
> of 101 to 499 to reserved for future assignment by the
> Linux Standard Base.
Yes, I agree with this. We should say that normal users should have
a UID >= 500 so we have some reserved space for future enhancements.
Thorsten
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