On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 03:14:43 PM Simo Sorce wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 20:04 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > On 05/25/2011 06:14 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > Coordination would be nice if we can decide on how we can sanely make > > > changes to this. > > > > I would think first is to reach consciousness on what the > > Do you mean consesus ? We are pretty conscious of the uid/gid problem > space I believe :) > > > reserved/system IDs are supposed to be once that has been done we can > > start looking at what is the best approach to implement and or fix > > things that might break because of it. > > Changing the reserved id space should break "only" new allocations on > systems that may have used the newly allocated IDs already. > The only way to fix that is to have the admin manually intervene after > the error is brought to his attanetion. > > Of course a softer way to deal with this is to not change the defaults > on upgrade if checks reveals IDs in the affected space. The problem is > that it may not be easy to determine this, esp when centralized ID are > also available via NIS/LDAP.
new installs in places with legacy systems cand and likely will be effected with the result in cases being that users can not log into systems any longer. Dennis
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