Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't use UIDs and GIDs below 100 without QA approval

[Rich Freeman]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 6:34 AM Florian Schmaus <flow@g.o> wrote:
>
> On 11/11/2021 11.59, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > We could:
> >
> > - Open some part of the range between 500 and 1000. For example,
> >    500..799, which would leave 200 IDs for dynamic allocation.
>
> +1, since I am not aware of any significant downsides doing so.
>

I will confess that 90% of the time that when I run into headaches due
to mismatching GID/UIDs it involves two different distros anyway.  I
definitely see the value in standardization, and there is some value
in doing it at the distro level, but really most of the value would
come from doing it cross-distro.

Ultimately I think a big part of the problem is that the whole UID/GID
model in Unix is a bit broken.  Of course that isn't going to change
anytime soon.

Probably still worth band-aid fixes for the time being.

-- 
Rich