Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:47:24 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Default value for UIDs Message-ID: <BANLkTimw9c_jYCeomW50EckGpsP9Gv574Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi all, [crees@zeus]~% tail -n 2 /usr/ports/UIDs dbxml:*:949:949::0:0:dbXML user:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin nobody:*:65534:65534::0:0:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin [crees@zeus]~% grep crees /etc/passwd crees:*:1001:1001:Chris Rees:/home/crees:/bin/tcsh chris:*:1001:1001:Chris Rees:/home/crees:/bin/tcsh [crees@zeus]~% I'm a little concerned at how close the ports UIDs are getting to the username space... A patch at [1] solves the problem for new installs, but it is definitely shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. Other than jumping to 32001 for new ports UIDs, we should possible consider alternatives? Before people scoff at the prospect of this number being reached soon, I'm working on patching the ports tree (with bapt) to make sure that all ports that create users have a UIDs entry, and there seems to be many that don't. Can we at least get this in for new installs? I'm aware other patches will be needed (perhaps sysinstall haha), but does this look workable? We're in the minority of OSes it appears -- many others have made users from 10000 for a while. Chris [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~crees/patches/pw-default-uid.diff
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