On 18 July 2016 at 08:39, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Heya! > > I'd like to start a discussion regarding the "nobody" user on Fedora, > and propose that we change its definition sooner or later. I am not > proposing a feature according to the feature process for this yet, but > my hope is that these discussions will lead to one eventually. > I am not against this proposal. It has been tried at least once before in the past but those failed due to a lot of programs secretly relying on the seperate uids and not a lot of people being able to fix it. I am not 100% certain that it was mostly 99 due to issues with various network authentication systems from long ago. (ypbind/ldap/etc) where the MAX-2 UID was not assigned to nobody but some other system account. I think this is why SUSE went with the range of uids because MAX-1 -> MAX-16 was used in various OS's for a large amount of system accounts. That is from a time when the world was rules by UNIX and Linux was a little thing. These days it is a different matter and we can try and be more flexible. I would say that UID 99 is going to need to be set to oldnobody or some such thing because of the upgraders versus fresh installers and it will need to be kept that way for the eventual EL branch. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
