[Fedora-packaging] packages which add user accounts: is fedora-usermgmt the way?
Tom 'spot' Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Jul 4 14:20:44 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 16:42 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jul 3, 2005, "Tom 'spot' Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > I vote we stay below 500. My FC4 box seems to start at 500 for new UIDs.
> > Starting at 300 seems sensible, to give FC some room.
>
> Erhm... But what about all those existing user bases introduced when
> only the range below 100 was reserved? My uid at the uni has been 404
> since 1991. FWIW, it wasn't an HTTP error code back then, to the best
> of my knowledge; it was just the number right after 403.
:)
I suspect that we'll find that due to poor historical planning, every
UID above 100 is used by someone, somewhere.
~spot
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