----- Original Message ----- From: George Kraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Johannes Poehlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 12:18 Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Chapter 15. Users & Groups: minimal UID for normal Users
> >I propose to change the following paragraph of Chapter 15. Users & Groups: > > When I originally wrote the chapter, there was strong opposition to > specifying any actual user and group numbers except for root. > Applications should be using the mnemonic names; therefore, the short > values for users and groups is a system admin issue that the LSB would not > address at this time. On a non-networked system this is true -- create pseudo-users and pseudo-groups as needed and use their symbolic names. Once networked systems come into play and user ID and group ID values must exist across shared filesystems, and in the clustered system case, shared CPUs, having a space in which to reserve (hopefully) common user ID and group ID values becomes more important. Of course, this is also an argument for network identification schemes, such as LDAP and NIS, but for systems where the burden of LDAP or NIS is unacceptable (and that's not a decision for anyone but the system administrator to make), having a reserved space is needed to make this possible. -- Julie.
