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 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
