On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 09:43 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 12:08:32PM +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote: > > > for Fedora Extras packages. We could make it start at 300 to be less > > > likely to conflict with random "useradd -r" done earlier. > > Assigning fixed IDs in this range would violate LSB which states > > > > | The system User IDs from 100 to 499 should be reserved for dynamic > > | allocation by system administrators and post install scripts using > > | useradd. > > [http://www.linuxbase.org/spec//book/LSB-generic/LSB-generic/uidrange.html] > > Well, that leaves us with stuffing Extras system UIDs into 0-99, or > violating the above-500 space, which is worse. Note that the LSB doesn't say > "must" -- it says "should", so it's a recommendation, not a requirement. > Since we've got a need that's not really covered, goint against this > recommendation is better than having the worse problem of dynamic system IDs > (a nightmare for upgrades and for enterprise deployment). I vote we stay below 500. My FC4 box seems to start at 500 for new UIDs. Starting at 300 seems sensible, to give FC some room. ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my! -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
