First, AFAIK (?) there isn't an architectural policy for picking the mysql uid from the set (26, 60, 70) that's been mentioned, so it probably doesn't need to be discussed too much deeper in the context of this LSARC case. The implementor & code reviewers can pick and agree on something.
James Carlson wrote: > > No ... the question was about what the "best" number to use might be, > not that 70 isn't available. The best number would presumably be one > that matches the largest number of other distributions, so that > administrators don't have to deal with the hassles caused by shared > file systems and default ownerships that don't line up. It probably doesn't matter for these system users in general. These are not users which log in or share their files across NFS. The files they own, if any, are runtime log/data files typically under /var, usually not shareable across hosts anyway. Probably not a discussion to have within this case either though ;-) It's been talked about earlier in this thread http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2007-November/thread.html#819 which might be a place to continue it as needed. -- Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems
