Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH v2 1/2] base-files: allocate uid/gid starting from 65536

2017-06-16 Thread Yousong Zhou
On 16 June 2017 at 20:15, Karl Palsson wrote: > > Daniel Golle wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:30:14AM -, Karl Palsson wrote: >> > >> > >> > I fairly strong feel that this change brings no value to the >> > table. >> >> I disagree. For now, the two allocation schemes (hardcoded vs. >> dy

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH v2 1/2] base-files: allocate uid/gid starting from 65536

2017-06-16 Thread Daniel Golle
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:15:19PM -, Karl Palsson wrote: > > Daniel Golle wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:30:14AM -, Karl Palsson wrote: > > > > > > > > > I fairly strong feel that this change brings no value to the > > > table. > > > > I disagree. For now, the two allocation sc

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH v2 1/2] base-files: allocate uid/gid starting from 65536

2017-06-16 Thread Daniel Golle
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:30:14AM -, Karl Palsson wrote: > > > I fairly strong feel that this change brings no value to the > table. I disagree. For now, the two allocation schemes (hardcoded vs. dynamic) are competing for the same address space. This can result in a hard-coded UID/GID to b

[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH v2 1/2] base-files: allocate uid/gid starting from 65536

2017-06-15 Thread Yousong Zhou
There already exist static assignment of uid/gid 65533 in packages feed and we have nobody/nogroup taking 65534 as their ids. Let's change the pid of dynamic assignment to start from 65536 so that the two assignment scheme will not collide with each other While at it, fix the scan command checkin