On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 07:53:44PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:25 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > [...] > >> And now I am wondering whether this will break existing packages. > > > Maybe not *packages*, but possibly non-Debian software. > > non-Debian software, running in the Debian system-user id range?
* Some other distributions (I believe RedHat is one of them, but am not sure) have their user UID range start at 500 rather than 1000. If someone is using Debian in a hybrid environment where the usernames are centralized on the network (using NIS or LDAP, or something similar), you will probably break mail for people with 500 <= UID < 1000 if you go doing this blindly. Note that, because of the NIS/LDAP possibility, it's not necessary that the sysadmin has reconfigured adduser to not create system users in the 500-1000 range, so checking for that isn't necessarily going to work. * System users on a Debian system are created with the --system argument. On reading the manpage, these users are called "system users", not "Debian system users"; so non-Debian software could very well be using that by using the documented API. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
