On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:18:49AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > 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 I remember when this came up before but can't find it now. I think it was changed to 99 when UIDs went to 32 bit and it suddenly started being 65535 on some systems and 4294967295 on others. * I was trying to figure out why 99 was eventually chosen, but can't find it now. In any case, the regularization makes sense to me. * At $formeruniversity, we had someone who was trying to back up /var/log without any special handling for sparse files and they suddenly got very surprised and upset when lastlog became "gigantic". Ah, good times. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
