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



Previously Julie wrote:
> Once networked systems come into play and user ID and group
> ID values must exist across shared filesystems, and in the clustered
> system case, shared CPUs, having a space in which to reserve
> (hopefully) common user ID and group ID values becomes more
> important.

On networked systems this is even more true: there are so many different
network policies out there any hope of coming up with a common policy
is doomed to fail.

Wichert.

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