Archaic wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 08:47:36AM -0700, Jeremy Utley wrote: > >>The problem is, if the book, as it is currently written, is followed, >>then system users & groups will be created as non-system. > > > But that doesn't actually matter, it is merely an historical issue that > *may* have been relevant way back when, but also may have just been the > way things were done with no real affect on anything. I'm not sure. The > only UID that should *possibly* still be assumed is 0. There is no > actual difference in system behavior between UID 99 and UID 100 unless > someone knows of a horribly broken package out there that makes such > assumptions. It should be strictly a local policy issue.
That is my understanding too, but I'd like this type of discussion/ explanation to be in the book. We supply an explict example, but tell the user the issues (or non-issues) and let them choose based on knowledge. The way its done now is that it is completely ignored. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
