When we built the majority of our Unix systems, well before Linux had made any real headway, the number of system defined users and groups was minimal, but to be "careful" we moved our ids into the 100's (some 85+ above the range at the time). Today the number of system defined ids still isn't much over 20 (if that) and yet we need to move our range to 500? This is going to be a massive headache and I'm not sure all that appropriate. Maybe I'm just spouting here, perhaps it's even always been this way, but this policy doesn't seem to reflect any sort general Unix standard that I've seen. Though the RedHat/Linux world may want to be progressive, such progressiveness shouldn't be in a vacuum of the rest of the Unix world. Some of us have large heterogeneous environments to support. Ugh. Matt Fahrner Manager of Networking Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Tony Nugent wrote: > > On Thu Aug 26 1999 at 19:14, Tony Nugent wrote: > > > > I *really* need an answer to this from someone at RedHat. > > Thanks, I did get a reply (via private email). It deserves a summary > here. > > UIDs and GIDs above 500 and below 60000 are for user accounts, while > those below 500 and above 60000 are "usually" reserved for system > accounts. (Although I'm not sure what to make of the GID of 100 as > "users", but I'm gleefully going to ignore this one:) > > It seems that this "policy" can be implied from some of the config > files and documentation, but isn't all that clearly and/or loudly > explained. It seems that it is likely that this matter will be made > clearer in the documentation for RH6.1. > > I have inherited a legacy here of UIDs and GIDs below 500 being used > for ordinary user accounts, and to avoid any conflicts now and in the > future we will need to make some once-only changes. > > Thanks again to RedHat for taking the time to make this clear. A > brilliant product, with a great support team. Keep up the good work > guys, it's appreciated. Live long and prosper :) > > Cheers > Tony > > -- > To unsubscribe: > mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
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