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Re: The low UID/GID problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Sat Jan 10 17:38:24 2009

Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:37:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
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On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Tim Abbott wrote:
> The other UID range that might have potential problems is 1000-1100, the 
> range where local UNIX users would be assigned.

Well, depending on how many local UNIX users are assigned.

By the way, some other distros like Fedora start numbering local users at 
500+ instead of 1000+.

Anders

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