Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 13:48 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> Okay this whole line of thought is total crackrock. Why do we need to
> make value judgements over what packages deserve a fixed ID, and what
> doesn't? If we're going to do fixed IDs at all, there's *no* reason we
> can't do it for all packages. We run out of space in the 0-499 range
> once there's 500 system users either way.

Oh, also mixing static and fixed ID only causes problems with dynamic
and static IDs colliding. Which only results in *less* efficient use of
the number space.

Dynamic UIDs only cause us more problems, and solve nothing.
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