From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 31 22:57:21 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA01091 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 May 1995 22:57:21 -0700 Received: from magic.winnet.net (magic.winnet.net [204.215.2.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA01085 for ; Wed, 31 May 1995 22:57:20 -0700 Received: (from piero@localhost) by magic.winnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA26438; Wed, 31 May 1995 17:05:20 -0400 From: Piero Serini Message-Id: <199505312105.RAA26438@magic.winnet.net> Subject: Re: xten stole my uid! To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 17:05:20 -0400 (EDT) Cc: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199505310731.AAA00270@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 31, 95 00:31:01 am Reply-To: Piero@winnet.net Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.0-SNAP X-Phone-Number: +1 (305) 535 3090 X-Faqs-Maintained: Elm (comp.mail.elm), Mail Archive Servers (comp.mail.misc) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 710 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hello. Quoting from Rodney W. Grimes: >>From back in the 386BSD 0.1 days, I've used uid 100 for my personal account. ... Me too. ... > is 267. Unix vendors have long been using uid's below 500 for specific > things and normal folks should try to avoid them (I do on all the ... I definetely agree with Stephen and I will NOT change my uid. *I* am a specific thing to my system, I know it loves me and it thinks of me as a special person and not as "normal folk". I will change xten to some other uid on each and every installation. Bye, -- # $Id: .signature,v 1.0 1995/02/05 17:34:46 piero Exp $ Piero Serini