Re: [arch-general] Arch pkg user and group IDs?

On 11/27/2016 07:58 AM, Hauke Fath wrote:

Hi,

what are Arch's conventions for the numeric ranges of system (package) user and grop IDs? And can the range be limited?

I am working up to switching a few dozen Debian clients to Arch. They have user homes on NFS, and authenticate through NIS. So far, nis distributes user and group IDs > 500, making anything lower a local / system ID. After installing Arch, I see

By convention, Arch expects user UIDs to be greater than 1000. There is a list of explicitly reserved system UIDs by repo packages here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:UID_/_GID_Database -- Eli Schwartz