Re: [PROPOSAL] Chapter 15. Users & Groups: mininal UID for normal Users
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 06, V man wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
>
> > >
> > > NEW
> > > All normal users will be above the uid of 500.
> > > All normal groups will be above the gid of 100.
>
> We could be wiser and reserver all the uid beetwen/including 101 and 999
> to users.
> In fact it is not unusual to have systems with something like 800 users or
> so.
The range 100-499 is not reserved for local UIDs. It is reserved for
future system accounts, if LSB will need it and UIDs below 100 are not
enough.
> If we start from 500 it could be too little.
> yes we could go on and use 1001 1002 ... for users
>
> but it is too inelegant, and uid above 1000 could be reserved for NIS.
LSB says nothing about which UIDs are local or reserved for NIS.
All users should be above 500 and it the job of the sysadmin which
ranges he reserves for local users and NIS or NIS+ or LDAP or
whatever else exists.
Thorsten
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