From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 1 11:09:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA29802 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 11:09:44 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA29796 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 11:09:40 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA05038; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 11:09:05 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506011809.LAA05038@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: xten stole my uid! To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 11:09:04 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Piero@winnet.net, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199506011036.FAA04223@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Jun 1, 95 05:36:30 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 769 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > Quoting from Rodney W. Grimes: > > >>From back in the 386BSD 0.1 days, I've used uid 100 for my personal account. > > ... > > Me too. > > Ditto. I see no reason for system UIDs over 99. THere's plenty of room in the > number space down there. > It is a fact that there is little I can do about this in the real world, we can fix FreeBSD but that is not going to take care of HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, Domain/OS and all the other variants that do infact assign uid's well into the 200 range on some of them. I already said I was going to seriously collapse this at 2.2, please stop the extra useless email. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD