[quoted lines by Wayne Davison on 2006/03/13 at 09:30 -0800]

>offset for numeric IDs, such as "--id-offset=5000".  This would map any
>ID < 5000 to ID+5000, and any ID >= 5000 to ID-5000 (assuming that
>either --numeric-ids was specified or that no matching name was found).
>I think I like the latter idea better than the former.

No, that'd still be unsafe. It needs to be predictable so that access rights
aren't being inadvertently granted to those who shouldn't have them. Being able
to specify a specific name would achieve this.

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