User id allocation and fedora-usermgmt

[Enrico Scholz]

dlutter at redhat.com (David Lutterkort) writes:

>         UID     For use by/managed by
>         0-199   Fedora Core, FC steering committee
>         200-299 reserved for future allocation
>         300-399 Fedora Extras, FeSCo
>         400-499 reserved for future allocation

not possible; accordingly FHS, these ranges are available for free use
and must not be assigned statically. They might be already in use in
existing systems, and a static assignment in future FE packages WILL
create conflicts.

The fact is, that you will not find a free range for new static uid. The
only possible range for static uids is 0-99 which is reserved for Core
already.


> For Fedora Extras, user id's would be tracked as they are right now
> at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/UserRegistry (with all
> uid/gid's bumped up by 300) and new uid's/gid's would be allocated
> during package review from the FE range 300-399.

I am in doubt that we will stay below 100 users...



Enrico
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