Jyri Virkki wrote:
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> On Aug 9, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Glenn Brunette wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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)
>
>
Raising the limit makes sense. However, I'd also recommend that we try
to avoid actually *using* numbers greater than 200. (And for now, 100.)
Historically, didn't useradd create accounts starting at 101?
-- Garrett
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