Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:07:19 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: numeric UID/GID names? Message-ID: <19970715160719.ON49440@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199707151030.KAA23198@ubiq.veda.is>; from Adam David on Jul 15, 1997 10:30:36 %2B0000 References: <199707151030.KAA23198@ubiq.veda.is>
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As Adam David wrote: > Are there any problems involved with giving users/groups all-numeric names, > in addition to the confusion that could exist when for instance UID number > 1234 is named 4321 (or 5678)? We are running a setup at a customer's site where the login IDs are the customer IDs of the customer's customers. (:-) No problems seen so far, but the numbers are large enough to not be confused with numerical IDs. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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