non fedora-usermgmt user creation

[David Lutterkort]

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 18:11 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> The range of 100..499 is reserved for system users too, but for dynamic
> assignment only. In another thread on this list, somebody suggested to
> change the LSB to allow static uids in this range. I think, this change
> will never happen because it would break existing systems.

That was me, based on the observation that (a) there is a need for
statically assigned system uid's beyond the 100 reserved by LSB (b) the
LSB does not provide for such a range. What fedora-usergmt tries to
address is the exhaustion of a shared resource (statically assignable
uid's) ... the only way to fix this reliably is to provide for more
statically assignable uid's. Enrico is doing that by leaving it up to
the sysadmin to find a 'safe' range for those uid's, I would prefer if
we could clearly state what we want there and have that codefied in a
standard (or at least, on a Wiki page) This would also take the burden
off the sysadmin to worry about safe static uid ranges (which in itself
is a fairly arcane topic)

David