Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:58:23 -0700
From: Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com>
Subject: Re: 2008/507 [ OpenLDAP for OpenSolaris]
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 05:52:07PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> IPS will alleviate the pressure, perhaps enough so that we can dodge
> this matter indefinitely.
Er, I don't think that IPS alleviates the pressure. The pressure
is the fact that we've traditionally only reserved uids < (<=?)
100, and IPS doesn't change that. If anything, it *increases* the
pressure by making it so easy to create new users without having
the bottleneck of integrating into ON. We can hope that
administrators won't install all packages that install new users,
but that's not a very good plan.
Someone ought to tackle the problem, certainly, but (as others
have already said) I don't think that's this case.
See the (newly added) issue gcs-9 in 2008/190 [IPS]'s issues file.
Feel free to refine or augment it.
-- Glenn
