>>>>> On Thu, 11 Nov 2021, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > In any case, we have run out of GIDs:
> Recommended GID only: none > Recommended UID only: 272 > Recommended UID+GID pair: none > Free UIDs: 15 > Free GIDs: 0 > Free UID+GID pairs: 0 > The question is of course how we should move forward. Certainly, using > IDs below 100 cannot be the solution, as we would run out of these very > soon. > We could: > - Open some part of the range between 500 and 1000. For example, > 500..799, which would leave 200 IDs for dynamic allocation. > - Open part of the range 60001..65533. Not sure if all software will be > happy with that. > - Admit that the concept of static allocation has failed, and return to > dynamic allocation. By today's council decision, the whole range from 101 to 749 is now available. The used_free_uidgids.sh script has been updated accordingly. There seem to be some issues with system IDs above 60000 especially with systemd. We'll try to sort these out before we run out of IDs again. Ulrich
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