> My specific interest in it is for having a sane UID/GIDs that are > identical between a set of machines, regardless of the order packages > are emerged in.
I was initially surprised to see Gentoo didn't have written standards for UID/GID management, but don't see many other distros having one either. Would it be untoward to extend this GLEP to define both default ranges and an internal body to hand them out? I, for one, am aesthetically uncomfortable with processes like mysql and rpm using IDs < 100, but don't have a clean technical argument as to why they shouldn't. It would also probably be fruitful to have enewgroup/enewuser check UID_MIN/GID_MIN instead of hard-coding the 101-999 search it does now. -- [email protected] mailing list
