On Tue, Dec 05, Johannes Poehlmann wrote: > Chapter 15. Users & Groups is not decided on the minimal value for UIDs/GIDs: > > All normal users and normal user groups will > be above the uid/gid of 100. No system required > uid or gid is to be placed above uid/gid 99 as > this may clash with real users imported via > NIS or LDAP from other Unix systems. (FIXME: > What about Red Hat's use of 500 for this? Do > other Linux distributions all use 100? Is there > another standard we can reference which contains > the 100 rule?) > > Checking some Linuxes I realized that more Distributions avoid UID´s <500 > for normal users. This is good becauset some time in the future 99 system > users could be not enough. > > I think, we should recommend or even require the UID range > of 101 to 499 to reserved for future assignment by the > Linux Standard Base.
Yes, I agree with this. We should say that normal users should have a UID >= 500 so we have some reserved space for future enhancements. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
