On 28 June 2011 17:59, Dan Nelson <dnel...@allantgroup.com> wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 28), Chris Rees said: >> Hi all, >> >> [crees@zeus]~% tail -n 2 /usr/ports/UIDs >> dbxml:*:949:949::0:0:dbXML user:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin >> nobody:*:65534:65534::0:0:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin >> [crees@zeus]~% grep crees /etc/passwd >> crees:*:1001:1001:Chris Rees:/home/crees:/bin/tcsh >> chris:*:1001:1001:Chris Rees:/home/crees:/bin/tcsh >> [crees@zeus]~% >> >> I'm a little concerned at how close the ports UIDs are getting to the >> username space... > > There are only 216 entries in UIDs, though, so if people are just using > "last entry + 1" when adding new ones, they should probably start filling > the gaps instead. The 100s and 200s are pretty dense, but 350-399 only has > 5 entries, 400-499 has 4, 600-699 has 7, 700-799 has 3, etc. >
Thank you for pointing that out (d'oh). However, perhaps we could still address the *potential* problems. To use one example, Debian has (as long as I can remember) used 10001 for the first username. When we have 65535 - 99 UIDs to play with, expansion like this isn't a problem. Could it be worth it? Think of ten years down the line. Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
