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

Eli Schwartz eschwartz93 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 27 21:04:22 UTC 2016


On 11/27/2016 08:52 AM, Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote:
> Yes, arch system users are numbered automatically, but the groups and
> users you listed are a bit of special snowflakes for systemd. I'm not
> sure whether remapping them would be possible.

AFAIK those systemd users/groups are generated by sysusers.d, which
doesn't declare specific UIDs. So I assume that is read from
/etc/login.defs, besides which I don't see how that would otherwise work
on distros that use lower max values.

-- 
Eli Schwartz


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