Bill,
> David McNab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > At least one principle that you should not remove is
> > "none". I did that while trying trying to do the same
> > thing you're talking about -- clean up the registry --
> > and I was very, very sorry. -- Dave
>
> The list of principals I propose to delete are:
>
> daemon
> sys
> bin
> uucp
> who
> mail
> tcb
>
> And I changed the UID for nobody from -2 to 60001.
Please do not do this. -2 has the virtue that it's
unambiguous (i.e., doesn't depend on being stored as
a signed value of a particular size), and is a clear
sentinel value outside the normal range of valid UIDs.
60001 is smack-dab in the middle of the UID space on
systems that support large UIDs, and will force nearly
every program that deals with UIDs to make explicit
checks for that value even if they don't know or care
about user nobody.
Regards,
Will
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