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May I remind everybody that by QA policy allocation of UIDs and GIDs |
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in the range 0..100 needs explicit approval by the QA lead: |
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https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/user-group.html#pg0901 |
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I have fixed the used_free_uidgids.sh script such that it will no longer |
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recommend any IDs below 101. |
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In any case, we have run out of GIDs: |
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Recommended GID only: none |
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Recommended UID only: 272 |
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Recommended UID+GID pair: none |
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Free UIDs: 15 |
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Free GIDs: 0 |
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Free UID+GID pairs: 0 |
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The question is of course how we should move forward. Certainly, using |
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IDs below 100 cannot be the solution, as we would run out of these very |
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soon. |
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We could: |
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- Open some part of the range between 500 and 1000. For example, |
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500..799, which would leave 200 IDs for dynamic allocation. |
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- Open part of the range 60001..65533. Not sure if all software will be |
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happy with that. |
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- Admit that the concept of static allocation has failed, and return to |
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dynamic allocation. |
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Ulrich |
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