On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:58:23PM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote: > 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.
I thought it'd alleviate the pressure by causing most such packages not to be installed most of the time (e.g., most users won't need the OpenLDAP service installed). > Someone ought to tackle the problem, certainly, but (as others have already > said) I don't think that's this case. Right.
