On Di, 08.10.24 18:07, Fedora Development ML (devel@lists.fedoraproject.org) wrote:
> Am 08.10.24 um 17:32 schrieb Lennart Poettering: > > For example, I am fundamentally opposed to the model > > these systems generally pursue of turning UID numbers into centrally, > > organization-wide managed concepts. > Wait a second, some organization have more than 70k people (and in this > day and age, they all require their own accounts) and UIDs are (on > Linux) 16bit numbers (which means a max of 65536 possible values). uid_t is 32bit. See https://systemd.io/UIDS-GIDS for our (i.e. systemd's) take on UID ranges and how much is actually available from the 32bit for what. (Note that this document does not take IPA world into account, which doesn't really subscribe to the idea that projects should allocate from specific UID subranges only, and wants to own the whole range instead. Sad.) Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
