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On Sun, 2019-11-10 at 18:23 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> As part of taking maintainership of the net-misc/asterisk package (and |
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> related), one of the cleanup items is to use the new acct-{user,group} |
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> method for assigning UID and GID values. |
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> As such I'd like to please reserve UID and GID = 42 for asterisk. |
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> Why 42? |
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> echo -e "\x$(bc <<<"obase=16; 42")" |
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> Current net-misc/asterisk uses a dynamically assigned UID and GID value. |
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> I do not have permission to edit |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UID_GID_Assignment_Table |
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> (https://api.gentoo.org/uid-gid.txt). |
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> Neither RHEL nor Fedora seems to have an asterisk user. Arch uses 77. |
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> We already have qemu on 77. |
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Other distros use 42 for something else, particularly for stuff we have |
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as well. |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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