Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 06:47:17 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about common group & user ID space (PR kern/14584) Message-ID: <200103181447.f2IElef41927@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Mar 2001 19:07:20 EST." <3AB3FC38.94711FFF@bellatlantic.net>
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In message <3AB3FC38.94711FFF@bellatlantic.net>, Sergey Babkin writes: > All, > > I want to commit PR kern/14584. I've been told that it's good From an operational standpoint I see one problem. Some sites use UID 0-999 and 65000-65535 for use by special accounts, such as www, ftp, oracle, etc. In some cases this policy is dictated by a desire to have some kind of commonality across various vendor platforms, some of which reserve some odd UID's and GID's for vendor supplied software or purposes. The only suggestion I would make is that a range could be specified. For example instead of vfs.commonid, vfs.commonid.low and vfs.commonid.high, allowing a site to, for example, reserve UID/GID's 10000-19999 or any other range as common ID's. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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