[aur-general] New users and groups

Lee MaRS leemars at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 07:36:21 EDT 2008


I have a question about the uid and gid. Are there any reserved uids
and gids for system use? In other distribution such as Ubuntu, the
user's uid and gid begins from 1000. But in Arch, it seems begin from
100. Is that mean that the uids and gids below 100 are reserved for
system use?

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
> I've changed my install according to your suggestion. I hope uid's
> 524, 525, 526 and gid 525 doesn't conflict with anything.
>
> 2008/10/3 Andrea Scarpino <bash.lnx at gmail.com>:
>> 2008/10/3 Andrea Scarpino <bash.lnx at gmail.com>:
>>> getent group YOUR_GROUP >/dev/null || usr/sbin/groupadd -g 93 YOUR_GROUP
>>
>> getent group YOUR_GROUP >/dev/null || usr/sbin/groupadd -g
>> YOUR_GROUP_ID YOUR_GROUP
>>
>> fixed, sorry
>>
>> --
>> Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino
>> Arch Linux Trusted User
>> Linux User: #430842
>>
>


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