UID_MIN & GID_MIN changed

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 24.05.11 12:20, Simo Sorce (simo at redhat.com) wrote:

> > * AFAIK, we actually have not run into the 500 uid limit yet (although
> > it is a bit low to be comfortable)
> > *  AFAIK, we've only allocated the range 0-100 for reserved IDs.
> > * The 0-100 reserved IDs are actually the pain point that we need to
> > deal with, not the dynamic system ids in the 101-499 range.
> > * We don't know how many, if any IDs this actually gets us for the
> > dynamic range because any site that has already filled the 500-1000
> > UID range won't gain any extra dynamic system account through this
> > change.
> > * This could potentially break sites that are currently using the
> > 500-1000 UID range and rely on the order of allocation of UIDs for
> > their users on new machines matching with the UIDs on old machines.
> > (For instance, NFS UIDs on filesystems matching between a box
> > installed with RHEL5 and a box that gets newly installed with F16).
> 
> You need to force UIDs in that case anyway, and if you are not using
> something like NIS or LDAP then you have to mange that manually anyways,
> so I wouldn't make that a stopper for this very welcome change.

I agree that this chnage is very welcome, because it allows us to remove
one further difference between the various distributions.

Thank you,

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.