[arch-general] Policykit, uid like a service, and gid like a user

[Magnus Therning]

Damjan Georgievski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 23:42, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>> I noticed after installing policykit that it created a new user and group
>> (both called policykit).  The thing that surprised me was the uid was 102
>> while the uid was 1001.  Should a system service like that really have a uid
>> below 1000 (like other service accounts) and a gid above 1000 (which is what
>> users are given).
>>
>> Looks to me like it might be a bug, but thought I'd get some input on it
>> before raising my first bug against an Arch package :-)
> 
> Probably the install script should use:
>   "groupadd --system policykit"
> in the install script.

Yes.  I raised a bug about it.

/M

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