--- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's perfectly safe to keep those users starting at > 500. Debian > packages that want an id in the 100-999 range will > dynamically allocate > it with adduser, which will never trample over an > existing user, and it > doesn't matter what user id it picks. > > I have my user id as 500 on a bunch of systems, a > holdover from 5 years > ago when I ran redhat. Never experienced any > problems at all due to it.
Very interesting. Makes me lean the other way now (toward just leaving the uids as < 1000). Thanks, Belloc __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
