On Wed, Dec 06, Johannes Poehlmann wrote: > I propose to change the following paragraph of > Chapter 15. Users & Groups: > > OLD > All normal users and normal user groups will > be above the uid/gid of 100. No system required > uid or gid is to be placed above uid/gid 99 as > this may clash with real users imported via > NIS or LDAP from other Unix systems. (FIXME: > What about Red Hat's use of 500 for this? Do > other Linux distributions all use 100? Is there > another standard we can reference which contains > the 100 rule?) > > NEW > All normal users will be above the uid of 500. > All normal groups will be above the gid of 100. > No system required uid or gid is to be placed > above uid/gid 99 as > this may clash with real users imported via > NIS or LDAP from other Unix systems. The > uid range 100-499 is reserved for future use > to be prepared if some time in the future > 99 system users could be not enough.
I think somebody who is allowed to do it should check it in to CVS. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
