Re: should not specify default group for users

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> Sadly it seems that 99 uids won't be enough in the future, especially
> now that people are realizing that you should not run everything as
> daemon or nobody...

Indeed. But 100 is the first normal user imported by NIS on rather a lot
of sites. That prevents us using them

> > Do we allocate a range very high in 32bit uid space as well ? Discuss 8)
> 
> Debian has reserved the range 60000-64999 for packages that need static
> uids. (ie weird things like qmail which insist on setting a uid at
> compile-time). It's not used a lot though (qmail, fidogate, mysql and
> netplan only).

That seems a good approach.  Push them high out of the way.

Alan