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Index of Subjects On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Landon Boyd wrote: > > $CS_ROOT/ip-list currently starts at 001 so when new IPs are created, the > GID of their groups start at 001. Since this would conflict with already > existing groups on most systems, should we change this list to start at > 1001? Sounds like a good idea, unless it looks like the site running the dist. is going to have over 9000 ip's. :D* > $CS_ROOT/uid-list currently starts at 1000. Would it be reasonable to add > an extra digit to this list as well, ie. start at 11001? With Debian, the > first user added with adduser gets the UID of 1000, so most Debian systems > would already have users with that UID. > > > Landon > Could we modify the debian we distribute with the dist. to start at 10000 instead? That would create some problems and solve some others i think... -- James Fifield "Those who are willing to give up some liberty for some security lose both and deserve neither." - Ben Franklin
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