>>>>> "Aleksandar" == Aleksandar Milivojevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Aleksandar> It is convinient to have fixed UID/GIDs accross systems.
Aleksandar> For example, the files will have correct ownership when
Aleksandar> moved accross systems (when using UID/GID based archive
Aleksandar> formats or over NFS).  This is especially important when
Aleksandar> restoring files without having entry for bacula in
Aleksandar> /etc/passwd file.

Sounds like the first step would be to see what the LSB (Linux
Standard Base) specifies for UID/GIDs for packages/daemons.  They
might be dynamically assigned unfortunately... but if we could reserve
a name/UID+GID pair in the LSB, that would be a big step forward.

John


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