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Date:      10 Aug 2002 13:34:10 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Reserve uid:gid 92
Message-ID:  <1029000851.35464.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020810161144.GN78857@squall.waterspout.com>
References:  <1028931447.55175.17.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>  <20020810161144.GN78857@squall.waterspout.com>

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On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 12:11, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 06:17:27PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > I would like to reserve uid and gid 92 for gdm.  How do I go about doin=
g
> > this?  Should I update the Porter's Handbook, or does a doc person or
> > portmgr do that?  Thanks.
>=20
> We don't have a formal procedure for this sort of thing.  If a
> gid/uid is not used by a system component or by any other port,
> ports committers simply used it in their port(s), in the past.
> Perhaps, for reference's sake, we should change that.
>=20
> Suggestions welcome on how exactly to solve that problem.

Well, for starters, there is section 15.11 of the Porter's Handbook that
lists the reserved IDs.  I'd like to get mine in there, but not sure if,
as a ports committer, I have the authority to add it.

Joe

>=20
> Regards,
> --=20
> wca
>=20
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