PSARC 2008/575 Inception review summary

[James Carlson]

Gary Winiger writes:
> > * Regarding Glenn Skinner's issue of "one more special-purpose uid":
> > 
> > Do we really need another special-purpose user-id?  The project team
> > will investigate whether this is really needed, including the
> > possibility of using "root" with dropped privileges.
> > 
> > There should be advice in the opinion for this case to the appropriate
> > management team on defining architecture suitable to allow projects to
> > use user-id's other than "root".
> 
> 	I mentioned there was a discussion of a similar request for
> 	new userID from a case of Nico's.  That case seems to be
> 	PSARC/2008/507  OpenLDAP for OpenSolaris.  I thought there
> 	was more discussion than seems to be in the case log.
> 	Possibly it occurred off line.  Perhaps I misremembered.
> 	Perhaps someone else has the case I was thinking of.

I think it was also discussed in 2008/260, but, yes, 2008/507 was the
main thread I remember.

It sure would be nice to have a solution before the 99 magic numbers
are all gone.

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