[aur-general] New users and groups

Lukáš Jirkovský l.jirkovsky at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 07:45:01 EDT 2008


Yes, but the problem is that below 100 is not much uids/gids so it's
possible that some day in future there will be some official
group/user with the same id as you have used in your package.

2008/10/3 Lee MaRS <leemars at gmail.com>:
> 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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