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On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 01/28/2017 09:22 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > Honestly, I really will say "so what" here. :) |
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> I forgot to mention a few of the advantages of having really-fixed UIDs. |
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> First, it makes the code simpler. Yup, cool. |
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> It also lets us play a nice trick and use the UID as a subslot, so that |
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> if some sys-user/foo package ever changes its UID, everything depending |
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> on it can be rebuilt to use the new UID. |
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That's nonsense for reasons already mentioned by rich0. UIDs don't change |
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except in the case of an admin doing it manually. |
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