Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Userkit.eclass

[William L. Thomson Jr.]

A couple more links, I should have provided initially as they better support 
the argument.

First from Debian, I cannot find a list, but it is clearly mentioned.

"0-99:
Globally allocated by the Debian project, the same on every Debian system"
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.2.2

This is even better, what Gentoo lacks, and could build upon.
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/
Deployment_Guide/s1-users-groups-standard-users.html

Also carries to CentOS of course
https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-users-groups-standard-users.html

Per previous links installing some RPMs that have fixed UID/GID will result in 
problems of other things are using it

"The vdsm user however is fixed to a UID of 36 and the kvm group is fixed to a 
GID of 36.
If UID 36 or GID 36 is already used by another account on the system then a 
conflict will arise during installation of the vdsm and qemu-kvm-rhev 
packages."

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.5/html/Installation_Guide/sect-
System_Accounts.html

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.