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

["Cagle, John" <John.Cagle@COMPAQ.com>]

Currently, a UID/GID registry is not part of LANANA's charter, AFAIK.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julie [mailto:jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com]
> 
> >
> > > 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.