Boyd Adamson wrote: > It's all very well for the some accounts to be system defined and for > that to be in the OS source, but third parties will have needs for > other, unbundled software.
Indeed, but the reason that webservd, gdm, postgres are *IN* Solaris today is because things that use it are *IN* Solaris. Third parties have a different issue in that there is no space reserved in the uid/gid numbers for them. 0-99 is reserved for the OS distribution and 100-MAXUID is available for use by the local admins. I know that other vendors distributions of Linux/BSD deal with this same issue so how do (say Fedora, OpenSUSE) they package the /etc/passwd entries versus the binaries that use them ? -- Darren J Moffat
