On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:19:36 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> >>>>> On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:  
> 
> > I interpreted 'reserved' as 'free to use' on
> >     
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/UID_GID_Assignment
> > Can you tweak it to someting other than 'reserved' so it would be clear?  
> 
> That's what the "Notes" column was intended for.
> 
> > I'll use 60001 .. 60999 / 61001 .. 61999. Is it free though?
> > '60001..65533' claims to also be 'reserved' as well.  
> 
> Debian is also using the range above 60000 for allocations that won't
> fit into the low range. Theoretically, there is some overlap with
> systemd dynamic users (61184..65519), but IIUC assigning other UIDs in
> that range isn't a problem, as long as there are enough free IDs left.
> 
> Another question, the above are about 2000 users and 2000 groups.
> Does that imply that we will eventually end up with 4000 packages
> in acct-{user,group}?

Should be 2000 users, 2 groups. Worst case it's 2002 packages, yes.

-- 

  Sergei

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