On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Erik Troan wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Th different numeric id ranges are important, though, if you want them > > preserved. I think recently it's become obvious that we need to provide > > at least one uid range that is reserved for the distribution, so that we > > don't end up having people's real users and package uids conflict. > > How about just ignoring uids altogether, and only specifiying unames? As > tar, rpm, and dpkg all set ownerships by uname rather then id, why bother > specifying the ids at all?
For networked environments (think NFS mounts and NIS). If distribution A decides that the group mail is (say) GID 12, and distribution B decides that is GID 8, what happens when you try to NFS mount /var/spool/mail from a machine running A on a machine running B? All the files have the wrong group. A base set of UIDs and GIDs is defeinitely needed. -- Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ndn.net/ "As time goes on, my signature gets shorter and shorter..." - me
