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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH 2/2] avahi: add user to /etc/passwd
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:29:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141217152900.GC18487@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141217093121.GC1884@pengutronix.de>

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:31:21AM +0100, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 09:30:13AM +0100, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> > Am 2014-12-16 23:20, schrieb Robert Schwebel:
> > > We re-use the uids from Debian.
> > 
> > Which are not fixed. See from the desktop I'm working on:
> 
> Uuuh, bad. Is there any distro out there with fixed numbers? Oterwhise
> we might just invent our own scheme.
Debian has (some) fixed uids. But this only applies to the ranges 0-99
and 60000-64999. See /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/README and
/usr/share/base-passwd/passwd.master. (Fun fact: mysql has uid 106 on my
vserver even though it has been granted a fixed uid.)

Best regards
Uwe

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-12-17 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-16 22:20 Robert Schwebel
2014-12-17  8:30 ` Alexander Dahl
2014-12-17  9:31   ` Robert Schwebel
2014-12-17 15:29     ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]

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