On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:57:55AM +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote: > The count of 200 free UIDs seems to be a little bit low for me; almost > every package with a daemon will require an own user so we will fill the > claimed 300-499 space in a few years. > > Or -- why do not we take the 500-999 area and let normal users begin at > 1000 (latter is already the case e.g. in Debian)? There the same situation > will arise: there might be conflicts with existing installations (like > with the 300-499 or any other fixed range), but as Seth says: "Change your > uid and chown all your files. This is the nature of legacy." We can start with 300-499 now, and then move the default minuid to 1000 in Fedora Core sometime later, with a warning that ids < 500 will become system ids in some future release, and then finally at some point in the future, make that change. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
