On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Please can we kill the "fixed UID are useless", [...]
> The *only* problem is this range is full, not that it should or should
> not exist. Any other argument is not worth the bytes expended on it.
Just as a datapoint: My rather full install of FC6/x86_64 yields:
$ getent passwd | sort -t: -k3,3n|cat -n|grep -B5 :99:99:
53 distcache:x:94:94:Distcache:/:/sbin/nologin
54 radiusd:x:95:95:radiusd user:/:/bin/false
55 hsqldb:x:96:96::/var/lib/hsqldb:/sbin/nologin
56 dovecot:x:97:97:dovecot:/usr/libexec/dovecot:/sbin/nologin
57 ident:x:98:98::/home/ident:/sbin/nologin
58 nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
So it looks like there are only 58 of 100 fixed uid really in
use. Maybe some quick review will give us 42 *fixed* uids, and I'm
sure that's more than enough for the next 1-2 years (e.g. until
F9/10/RHEL6. And until then we can talk with the LSB to change the
system fixed/non-fixed uid ranges and prepare a sensitive and
compliant setup to last for the next decade.
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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