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

[Hauke Fath]

On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 08:55:48 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> By convention, Arch expects user UIDs to be greater than 1000.

I understand that.

> There is a list of explicitly reserved system UIDs by repo packages
> here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:UID_/_GID_Database

Which, apart from qmail which is easily avoided, lists only IDs below 
500. 
But it looks like /etc/login.defs additionally reserves a range of 
system IDs.

Cheerio,
hauke

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