[aur-general] New users and groups

[Lee MaRS]

So I think the best solution to this problem, is to reserved uids and
gids below 1000 for system use.

I filled a bug report to hope that policy-kit can use uid and gid
below 100 instead of 102. However, nobody notices it..

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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