From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 15 07:15:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA29159 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 07:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA29145 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 07:14:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA07223 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:14:56 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA07598; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:07:20 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970715160719.ON49440@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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? References: <199707151030.KAA23198@ubiq.veda.is> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199707151030.KAA23198@ubiq.veda.is>; from Adam David on Jul 15, 1997 10:30:36 +0000 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)