On Aug 9, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Glenn Brunette wrote: > > 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.
Two [different] accounts with the same numeric uid on a system would certainly be a problem, but that wasn't the topic at hand. > 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. Indeed it was, but coincidentally it also brought an example where most daemon uids are assigned first-come-first-served and it seems to work just fine (as a long-time admin of multiple Debian boxes I've never encountered any issues nor do any potential ones come to mind). (+1 on raising the limit to 1000 though, that makes sense. Some Debian info here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-users.html)
