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> Unfortunately, in practice the start of the range for both system UIDs and GIDs is fixed. Not a bug, but a security feature. You don't want an unbounded amou
by rurban 5y ago
> Unfortunately, in practice the start of the range for both system UIDs and GIDs is fixed.
Not a bug, but a security feature. You don't want an unbounded amount of privileged users. And certainly don't need it.
Same for ports, string lengths, array lengths, ...
The real problems are well-known dpkg quirks on updates.