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Re: expanding Athena UNIX UID space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Wed Apr 25 16:27:33 2007
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:33:59 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:26:49 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
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> Greg proposed the alternate idea of beginning to allocate IDs above
> 131072 to avoid any root instance conflicts, which also seems like a
> reasonable alternative.
This sounds to me like it could become very messy over time as people with
the new higher UIDs acquire root instances and eventually prdb entries
for some of them. Is there a long-term plan to avoid having this problem
every N years? (One possibility, I guess, would be to alternate blocks of
64k IDs for Unix UIDs and PTS root instance IDs.)
Mitch
