Previously V man wrote: > Debian metod is really well working, but it's a little too much > "particular". I propose a little change. While we're proposing let me propose something else: We basically need three range: * 0-99, reserved for static uids and gids that should be present on all systems. * a range for static uids and gids that are needed for some applications (qmail for example) * a range for dynamic uids and gids that are not always needed (for example a daemon-specific uid which is only needed when the specific daemon is installed ) Furthermore there are two specials uid and gids (0=root:root and 65534=nobody:nogroup). Can we all agree on that? I'll assume yes for now :) We'll have to make a list for the 0-99 range and keep it as empty as possible since we don't have a lot of room in there.. Next, if we don't want to conflict with traditional NIS setups we can't touch the range 100-N, where N might be 65533 so we give users the full 16bit range. This pushes us to somewhere in the 32bit range. I suggest we pick a range somewhere high. Does someone know if all applications support 32bit uids by now? Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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