hi I have ran accross this a few times in the past but was curious if there was any effort in Debian 3.0 that goes to assigning a uid number to the system accounts to keep them consistant accross installations. Many of the accounts already are(the core ones) but at least in my case I had some trouble migrating a cyrus installation from one system to another because on the system it came from(potato) cyrus was uid=100, on the woody system it was going to cyrus was uid=103 and sshd was uid=100. On my system at home which is woody cyrus is uid=101 and sshd is uid=102. It would really be nice if there was an assigned method(sort of like assigning ports) for keeping uid numbers consistant. This would also help a great deal with distributed authentication such as LDAP or NIS.
at least it would help when working in a mostly debian networked enviornment. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]