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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:37:25AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 
> Admin created accounts are supposed to start at 500 (or 1000,
> depending on who you listen to) and system accounts (created by
> packages and such) stay below 500 (or 1000, ditto).

The init system is patched to kill processes owned by UID >=1000 (it 
used to be 100).

New Users start at 1000.  I suggest we set:

   0 -  499 System Packages
 500 -  999 Local Administration
1000 - .... Users

And then we can expect the system and local administrator to be 
responsible for killing their own created processes.

Seth

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