Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Peter Vrabec]

Hi folks,

I wrote a patch for useradd and groupadd, so they start assigning
system UID and GID at the top of the available system slots (499).
I hope it helps to create some space for static registration.

I'll take a look at 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231525
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231540



On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:09:11 -0500
Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:

> Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net) said: 
> > Or bite the bullet and reserve a new fixed uid range
> 
> +100
> 
> Just do it, have a registry. When we get to a situation that requires
> 500 separate system UIDs, we'll deal with it then. I don't want to be
> the "640k should be enough for everyone" guy, but I'd have to think
> that by the time we get to that point, we will have gone way beyond
> the point of diminishing returns in additional packages.
> 
> Bill
> 
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