> Sadly it seems that 99 uids won't be enough in the future, especially > now that people are realizing that you should not run everything as > daemon or nobody...
Indeed. But 100 is the first normal user imported by NIS on rather a lot of sites. That prevents us using them > > Do we allocate a range very high in 32bit uid space as well ? Discuss 8) > > Debian has reserved the range 60000-64999 for packages that need static > uids. (ie weird things like qmail which insist on setting a uid at > compile-time). It's not used a lot though (qmail, fidogate, mysql and > netplan only). That seems a good approach. Push them high out of the way. Alan
