On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 kpneal@pobox.com wrote:

> > I agree. You have to remove the duplicate entries. Search your filesystems
> > for the old UID-owned files and chown.
>
> Except I have no idea what uids and gids were compiled into various
> programs. And it isn't like I'm going to make sweeping changes to

As I mentioned in my email: software probably shouldn't use the actual
numerical UIDs or GIDs, but should use getpwnam(3) or getgrnam(3) or
similar.

I am curious does any popular software hard code actual UIDs or GIDs
(other than maybe for "0")?

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/