Post #1436079
2026-03-23 13:17 UTC
@kbm0 @aral @ammdias @iaruffell fair. Maybe in the future when systemd is enterprise ready, it'll allow you to configure how much uid space it hogs, so there's enough for those organisations with more than a quarter of a million employees...
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@kbm0@mastodon.social 2026-03-23 13:22
@quixoticgeek @aral @ammdias @iaruffell Ideally you never want to reuse a user ID when someone leaves, because it might be in use somewhere as a file ownership. And there are reasons you might want to generate temporary/transient users frequently. So you don't ever need anywhere near 260 million users to run into trouble. Unfortunately Windows seems to have the edge here, with its bulky SIDs.