Re: Logs and Permissions for Daemons
Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl> wrote:
> Previously Herbert Xu wrote:
>> Any reason why this has to be static? It seems that it would be easier
>> just to let adduser allocate a uid in that range dynamically.
> Not really. As policy puts it:
> 100-999:
> Dynamically allocated system users and groups. Packages which
> need a user or group, but can have this user or group allocated
> dynamically and differently on each system, should use ``adduser
> --system'' to create the group and/or user. `adduser' will check
> for the existence of the user or group, and if necessary choose
> an unused id based on the ranged specified in `adduser.conf'.
Surely it's not too hard to modify this so that it allows a subrange
of >60000 uids to be used fo dynamically allocated uids?
The reason is that statically allocated uids is really a pain to
maintain when we have such a large project.
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