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Re: adduser/cleanusers scripts

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Katy King)
Tue Jul 29 14:54:52 1997

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:53:52 -0400
From: Katy King <katyking@MIT.EDU>
To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: Edwin Foo <efoo@hesed.mit.edu>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, fubob@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1742] in SIPB_Linux_Development"


> Moira currently only uses uids between 100 and 32000, but reliable
> sources tell me uids above 32000 may be taken in the future.  Athena
> is not designed with local users in mind.

FYI:
UID: glwilson:*:99:101:Gerald L. Wilson,Gerry,4-405,34630,:/mit/glwilson:/bin/athena/tcsh

I believe this is the only non-admin-type UID below 100, but there are
plenty of system UIDs in use in that range.  It seems *nothing* is
completely "safe."

Katy

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