On 11/14/08 10:27, Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > I've been down that road before with in.ndpd, dhcpagent, and pppd.  I
>  > don't think it works and can't really be made to work, because you
>  > need to either assign a distinct UID to this process (we only have 100
>  > total that can be reserved over the whole system, and many already are
>  > demanding them, so this is a losing proposition)
>
> I'm not sure that's true.  Yes, only UIDs less than 100 are reserved.
> However, unless that UID can be seen by another system (e.g., the owner of
> a file through NFS), couldn't it be dynamically assigned to any available
> slot in the normal UID space during installation time?
>
> --
> meem
>   

ILB project is proposing to create a "ilbadm" uid for its daemon. Since 
ILB will use VRRP for HA, perhaps VRRP can use the same uid? 

Sangeeta
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