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Re: Can't Login on Linux Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Mar 12 11:24:37 2003
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:25:53 -0500
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Cc: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu
To: dbaron@mit.edu (Dennis Baron)
From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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It is my sense that as UNIX/Linux has become more popular over time,
it's become part of the oral tradition that "UID's below 100 are for the
system".
-wdc
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 06:33 AM, Dennis Baron wrote:
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>> Let us know if you have any questions about any of the above, and
>> which solution you'd like to see implemented.
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> I'm reluctant to change my uid. Who knows what dependencies have been
> created
> over the uears... net cell, etc, etc. And I'm _very_ dependent on
> Athena. So
> I'd prefer "fixing" the passwd file rather than fixing me!
>
> Dennis
>
> ps: Why couldn't they have picked JDB's uid :-) ?
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