From owner-freebsd-security Sun Mar 18 6:52: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6B637B718; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 06:51:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id GAA03707; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 06:48:21 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda03705; Sun Mar 18 06:48:09 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.2/8.9.1) id f2IEm0D17167; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 06:48:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdb17165; Sun Mar 18 06:47:45 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f2IElef41927; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 06:47:40 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200103181447.f2IElef41927@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdF41921; Sun Mar 18 06:47:18 2001 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: Sergey Babkin Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, Wes Peters , Robert Watson , fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about common group & user ID space (PR kern/14584) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Mar 2001 19:07:20 EST." <3AB3FC38.94711FFF@bellatlantic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 06:47:17 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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