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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@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 12:11:20
Message-Id: 844d85bc625fb6d6eeaea502457430c2ad011594.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't use UIDs and GIDs below 100 without QA approval by Ulrich Mueller
1 El jue, 11-11-2021 a las 12:48 +0100, Ulrich Mueller escribió:
2 > > > > > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2021, Florian Schmaus wrote:
3 >
4 > > > We could:
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 > We still need some range for dynamic allocation. Currently that is
13 > 500..999, and would be reduced to 800..999. That seems to be on the low
14 > side already.
15 >
16 > In any case, 300 additional IDs may not be future proof at the rate
17 > we're currently allocating them. So I wonder if we shouldn't move to
18 > above 60000 immediately, or alternatively, give up the whole concept.
19 >
20 > Ulrich
21
22 Personally I would move to >60000 and keep the 300 additional IDs for the case
23 some software really really needs them

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't use UIDs and GIDs below 100 without QA approval Jaco Kroon <jaco@××××××.za>