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Propose to allocate uids from the maximum down
Suggestion by Jan Engelhardt to avoid clashes with existing deployments: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2015-04/msg00336.html
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documents/wip/userNaming.txt

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an HA fail over environment the potential change in UID of the user on one
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machine and another UID on the fail over machine may not be tolerated. It is
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therefore proposed that the created system users for the cloud frameworks
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be assigned consistent user IDs across distributions start with 99 and working
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down, the order is not of material interest.
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_oneadmin -> 60001 (system user for openNebula)
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_openstack -> 60002
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_cloudstack -> 60003
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_eucalyptus -> 60004
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be assigned consistent user IDs across distributions start with 4294967293 and
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working down, the order is not of material interest.
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_oneadmin -> 4294967293 (system user for openNebula)
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_openstack -> 4294967292
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_cloudstack -> 4294967291
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_eucalyptus -> 4294967290
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_ceph -> 4294967289
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Using the proposed "_" prefix for the proposed IDs for the cloud frameworks.
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