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From: Joonas Niilola <juippis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't use UIDs and GIDs below 100 without QA approval
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:41:10
Message-Id: 225f3612-6c4e-b5e1-aeb0-70ce73119b3a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't use UIDs and GIDs below 100 without QA approval by Florian Schmaus
1 On 11.11.2021 13.34, Florian Schmaus wrote:
2 > On 11/11/2021 11.59, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
3 >> We could:
4 >>
5 >> - Open some part of the range between 500 and 1000. For example,
6 >>    500..799, which would leave 200 IDs for dynamic allocation.
7 >
8 > +1, since I am not aware of any significant downsides doing so.
9 >
10 > Could you elaborate why the range 500-799 only leaves us with 200 IDs?
11 >
12 > - Flow
13 >
14 >
15
16 Read it like this: Only 800-999 gets freed with this suggestion, as
17 500...999 is currently reserved for dynamic allocation. And >1000 is
18 also reserved.
19
20 -- juippis

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