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Date:      Wed, 31 May 1995 17:05:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Piero Serini <piero@magic.winnet.net>
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xten stole my uid!
Message-ID:  <199505312105.RAA26438@magic.winnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199505310731.AAA00270@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 31, 95 00:31:01 am

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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,
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Piero Serini                                               <Piero@WinNet.NET>



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