Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 11:09:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: Piero@winnet.net, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xten stole my uid! Message-ID: <199506011809.LAA05038@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199506011036.FAA04223@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Jun 1, 95 05:36:30 am
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> > > 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
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