On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Robert Watson wrote:

| +audit:*:73:

According to the Porter's Handbook, that's possibly the very worst choice:

        ircservices:*:73:73:IRC services:/nonexistent:/nonexistent

Hmm. I was looking at the copy of the Porter's Handbook on www.FreeBSD.org and it didn't show that one as reserved:

...
proxy:*:62:
authpf:*:63:
uucp:*:66:
xten:*:67:
dialer:*:68:
network:*:69:
pgsql:*:70:
simscan:*:74:
www:*:80:
qnofiles:*:81:
...

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-uid-and-gids.html

Of course, it also didn't show some of the groups now in /etc/group. Am I looking at the wrong porter's handbook?

Incidentally, this was one of the few group ID's I could find that wasn't allocated in one of {Darwin, Solaris, FreeBSD, SuSE}.

Ah, now I see what you mean. Some of the allocated gids are not listed in the gid list, they are only listed in the password file entry. Sigh. I'll go shopping for another. Someone may want to propagate the gid's listed in the passwd lines into the group list. Also, there are now some entries in the base system passwd and group files that don't appear in the list in the potter's handbook.

Robert N M Watson
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