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

["Julie" <jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Dunlap, Randy <randy.dunlap@intel.com>
To: <lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 16:48
Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] Chapter 15. Users & Groups: mininal UID for
normalUsers


>
> > As a thought, someone might want to create a "Linux Reserved
> > Number Registry" so that vendors can reserve UID/GID values and
> > have some assurance that similarly concerned vendors won't expect
> > that a specific UID/GID value will be available.
>
> That would be at www.lanana.org (H. Peter Anvin).

Thanks!

Is there a tools which would allow Linux systems to query
that registry for pre-allocated UID/GID values and either
use them or avoid them, as appopriate?

-- Julie.