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Re: [PROPOSAL] Chapter 15. Users & Groups: mininal UID for normal Users



Hi,

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> Let me raise a broader question.  Why is this in the LSB specification
> at all?  It's good practice for the distributions to follow, no doubt,
> but I don't think its within the scope of LSB, since how user groups
> are chosen is generally a matter of local sysadmin policy, and is
> generally irrelevant as far as application/distribution
> interoperability is concerned.
>
> If people want to keep this there as useful suggestions to
> distributions, I suggest putting it in a (non-normative) rationale
> section.

Even though it seems to be common practice by most distributions anyway,
it seems like a good idea to me to add it as a useful suggestion.

	LenZ
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