Jyri Virkki wrote: > > I'm not really convinced though, if nothing else because nobody has > a nicely homogeneous OpenSolaris-only network, so it's a fact that > there won't be consistent daemon uids out of the box no matter > what OpenSolaris does.
Our specific assignment of UIDs doesn't need to be consistent in a heterogeneous context (although that may be nice if we can do it). The more important point is that they should be consistent across other OpenSolaris instances. This was the concern that two OpenSolaris systems with software deployed in different orders could end up with 2 accounts having the same UID. This is bad and has caused a great deal of problems in the past. I think that the Debian example was provided to illustrate that starting with UIDs > 1000 for user accounts would be a way of being consistent for reserved vs. non-reserved ranges in a heterogeneous way. g
