I would urge some caution here. If I were to guess at a reason as to why bin has uid/gid of 1, I would suspect that some application installations use 1 as the bin uid/gid instead of looking it up. This may not be good practices, but the LSB work is primarily focused on codifying current practices, good or not.
Before this is deprecated, it would probably help to look in distributions of various application packages and/or ask the creators/maintainers of those packages to check for an assumption that bin will have uid/gid equal to 1. And, since we all make mistakes, I'd suggest changing the bin uid/gid on a system in a distribution or two, install the most commonly used applications, and see if they execute properly. -----Original Message----- From: Wichert Akkerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:59 AM To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core support package Previously Stuart Anderson wrote: > I think part of the reason for having added this was that this was an area > where divergence was beginning to occur, and those participating at the time > felt that we should specify the common practice to prevent further divergence. I don't think divergence is a good reason for putting them into LSB: if we don't spec those users at all it doesn't matter if they diverge since people can't use them without violating the LSB, but more interestingly it will also allow us to remove them completely. > Unfortunately, we can't just remove it. It has been published as part > of the standard. What we can do, however, is to mark that portion as > "deprecated" and remove it in a future release. What I plan to do for Debian is not install those users on new installs but keep them around on existing systems. This will be done after the woody release though so it won't affect anyone for the current forseeable future. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ /[EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left occupied \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
