On 14/10/10 05:18, Steve Holmes wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 03:07:45AM +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
Make sure the user and group IDs don't conflict with those in the UID / GID Database [1].
[1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:UID_/_GID_Database
Thanks for the reference. I got a referal to that earlier in the day. What I wonder though is how we are supposed to clear these new IDs so someone else doesn't use it too. I understand it is difficult or impossible to update this list. Example: I might take user 111 and group 111 but there's no way for some other package developer to try and use the same ones in his or her project. I guess as long as those two packages don't end up on the system, no harm, no fowel:).
Is it important that the UID/GID are well-known, i.e. are the same on all systems, that would be the case if they are hardcoded somewhere in the code? If that isn't the case then just create the UID/GID as system accounts instead. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe