> Frankly, I can't see any reason why uid/gid 1 should be assumed to be > bin, especially since no other UIDs and GIDs are static (except 0, > which is embedded in the kernel design...). After all, that's why we > have getpwuid()... Agreed. The rest of the thread is junk but the basic initial question is a good one - why was bin forced to 1 ?