Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:52:07 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com>
Subject: Re: 2008/507 [ OpenLDAP for OpenSolaris]
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 05:22:19PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:16:39PM -0700, Glenn Skinner wrote:
> > Is it really necessary to allocate another user:group pair
> > from our dwindling stock of reserved values? Would it be
> > possible to share one of the already allocated entries from
> > the reserved part of the name space?
>
> My impression (please correct me if I'm wrong) is that with IPS
> the UIDs and GIDs can be allocated dynamically and that most
> pkgs that install local users/groups will often not be installed
> by the user anyways.
I've confirmed this with Dave Miner.
Are you proposing a dependency of this case on the IPS case?
-- Glenn
