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On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:08 PM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Thu, 11 Nov 2021, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> >> - Open part of the range 60001..65533. Not sure if all software will be |
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> >> happy with that. |
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> > systemd has some code that special-cases ids in the "system" range. |
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> > I'm not exactly sure what impact creating system users outside above |
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> > SYS_UID_MAX (login.defs) will have. |
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> We also have some IDs below SYS_UID_MIN (= 101) which technically is |
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> outside the system account range of login.defs. Do these cause any |
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> problems with systemd? |
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That seems less likely to cause a problem. systemd considers any id <= |
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SYS_UID_MAX to be a system id. |
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