Re: [PROPOSAL] Chapter 15. Users & Groups: mininal UID for normal Users
On Wed, Dec 06, Johannes Poehlmann wrote:
> I propose to change the following paragraph of
> Chapter 15. Users & Groups:
>
> OLD
> 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?)
>
> NEW
> All normal users will be above the uid of 500.
> All normal groups will be above the 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. The
> uid range 100-499 is reserved for future use
> to be prepared if some time in the future
> 99 system users could be not enough.
I think somebody who is allowed to do it should check it in to CVS.
Thorsten
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