Santiago Vila <sanv...@unex.es> writes: > Alternatively, we could try to improve the current status a little bit > for squeeze.
> (A system admin with about 45000 users in his system asked me about > the new /etc/profile and the apparently arbitrary limit of 29999). > The block 30000-59999 is reserved *by us*, so we can free it for user > accounts easily: > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -5849,7 +5849,7 @@ > </p> > </item> > > - <tag>1000-29999:</tag> > + <tag>1000-59999:</tag> > <item> > <p> > Dynamically allocated user accounts. By default > @@ -5860,11 +5860,6 @@ > </p> > </item> > > - <tag>30000-59999:</tag> > - <item> > - <p>Reserved.</p> > - </item> > - > <tag>60000-64999:</tag> > <item> > <p> > Known affected packages: adduser, base-files > Fix: Trivial: s/29999/59999/ > I'm looking for seconds for this proposal. Seconded. I agree with just releasing this UID space. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mxvtf7ar....@windlord.stanford.edu
