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

[Eli Schwartz]

On 11/27/2016 12:27 PM, Hauke Fath wrote:
>> And, just to mention it for completness, there is
>> /etc/login.defs where you can theoretically adjust those numbers.
> 
> This
> 
> <snip>
> # Min/max values for automatic uid selection in useradd
> #
> UID_MIN                  1000
> UID_MAX                 60000
> # System accounts
> SYS_UID_MIN               500
> SYS_UID_MAX               999
> </snip>
> 
> might actually help, depending on how well it is enforced. Thanks!

"enforced"? It is the configuration file for useradd. Anything not
explicitly hardcoded in the UID/GID database (or hardcoded but not in
the database) will respect the useradd configuration (when you reinstall
Arch and all those users are created from scratch again).

Although really, whatever distribution was running on your NFS server
shouldn't be configuring for users with UIDs below 1000 -- a network is
exactly the wrong place to be allowing UIDs that can clash with other
distros' UID reservations.
It might not be a bad idea to report that as a bug.

-- 
Eli Schwartz