Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo standard UIDs

[Mike Kelly]

José González Gómez wrote:
> Is there anywhere I can find the list of standard UIDs/GIDs used in Gentoo?

There is / was such a list in CVS[1] at some point, thought it is far
from complete or current.

> I also took a look at
> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/users-and-groups/index.html, and
> there they say that you shouldn't hard code the UID/GID, so does enewuser
> use some kind of algorithm to keep the new UID/GIDs in a given range? Can I
> be sure that a UID generated by enewuser won't collide with some range I
> reserve for non system users?

You can pass -1 as the uid parameter to enewuser. In this case, it will
search for the first free uid between 101 and 999, inclusive.

This will be much nicer / easier to do once I finish my[2] GLEP 27[3]
implementation...

[1] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-src/eid_database/
[2] http://soc.pioto.org/
[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0027.html

-- 
Mike Kelly