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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Cc: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't use UIDs and GIDs below 100 without QA approval
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:08:24
Message-Id: utugitsro@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't use UIDs and GIDs below 100 without QA approval by Mike Gilbert
1 >>>>> On Thu, 11 Nov 2021, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2
3 >> - Open part of the range 60001..65533. Not sure if all software will be
4 >> happy with that.
5
6 > systemd has some code that special-cases ids in the "system" range.
7 > I'm not exactly sure what impact creating system users outside above
8 > SYS_UID_MAX (login.defs) will have.
9
10 We also have some IDs below SYS_UID_MIN (= 101) which technically is
11 outside the system account range of login.defs. Do these cause any
12 problems with systemd?
13
14 Ulrich

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