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

[Eli Schwartz]

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

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Eli Schwartz