Bug#765499: Patch to make policy document 32-bit uids

2015-02-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 08:51:44PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 23:38:24 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 12:28:22PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: + tag4294967294:/tag +

Bug#765499: Patch to make policy document 32-bit uids

2015-02-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 23:38:24 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 12:28:22PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: + tag4294967294:/tag + item + p + tt(uid_t)(-2) == (gid_t)(-2)/tt emmust +

Bug#765499: Patch to make policy document 32-bit uids

2015-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: OK I offer an updated patch. Third time's a charm I hope. Looks good to me. Seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#765499: Patch to make policy document 32-bit uids

2015-02-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 12:28:22PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: + tag4294967294:/tag + item + p + tt(uid_t)(-2) == (gid_t)(-2)/tt emmust + not/em be used, because it is mistaken for +

Bug#765499: Patch to make policy document 32-bit uids

2015-01-31 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 02:27:06PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 04:44:22PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: Here's a patch to document the 32-bit nature of UIDs, in line with Ben's suggestion (which seems sound to me). I miss the special case of 32-bit wide -2, aka

Bug#765499: Patch to make policy document 32-bit uids

2015-01-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: + tag4294967294:/tag + item + p + tt(uid_t)(-2) == (gid_t)(-2)/tt emmust + not/em be used, because it is mistaken for + tt65534/tt prgnnobody/prgn by some +

Bug#765499: Patch to make policy document 32-bit uids

2015-01-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 04:44:22PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: Here's a patch to document the 32-bit nature of UIDs, in line with Ben's suggestion (which seems sound to me). I miss the special case of 32-bit wide -2, aka nobody as used by nfs. It should be reserved at least. Bastian --

Bug#765499: Patch to make policy document 32-bit uids

2015-01-22 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:20:00AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Matthew Vernon matt...@debian.org writes: Here's a patch to document the 32-bit nature of UIDs, in line with Ben's suggestion (which seems sound to me). I've added a note to the effect that useradd won't use the higher-numbered

Bug#765499: Patch to make policy document 32-bit uids

2015-01-22 Thread Matthew Vernon
tags 765499 +patch quit Hi, Here's a patch to document the 32-bit nature of UIDs, in line with Ben's suggestion (which seems sound to me). I've added a note to the effect that useradd won't use the higher-numbered UIDs, which seems sensible as a) that requires no changes to useradd b) there are

Bug#765499: Patch to make policy document 32-bit uids

2015-01-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthew Vernon matt...@debian.org writes: Here's a patch to document the 32-bit nature of UIDs, in line with Ben's suggestion (which seems sound to me). I've added a note to the effect that useradd won't use the higher-numbered UIDs, which seems sensible as a) that requires no changes to

Bug#765499: Patch to make policy document 32-bit uids

2015-01-22 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Matthew Vernon: Here's a patch to document the 32-bit nature of UIDs, in line with Ben's suggestion (which seems sound to me). I've added a note to the effect that useradd won't use the higher-numbered UIDs, which seems sensible as a) that requires no changes to useradd b) there are some