On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 10:09:45AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am 08.09.2012 15:33, schrieb Dave Reisner: > > A few remaining bugs in testing/util-linux at the moment: > > > > - shadow needs to be a dep > > - uuidd user's home is wrong > > > > These will be fixed in a -4 I'm rolling up. Note that testing users who > > have uuidd's home in /home/uuidd will want to fix this by simply > > running: > > > > usermod -d / uuidd > > > > One last bug about hwclock [1] is still outstanding, but I'm not able to > > reproduce it. I'm still unconvinced of whether it's a legit bug in > > hwclock or just something we need to fix in initscripts, but I've > > forwarded the bug onto the util-linux ML to see if I can get input from > > elsewhere. > > > > Cheers, > > Dave > > > > [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31416 > > > Shouldn't uuidd user have the same uid/gid on all systems? > > greetings > tpowa >
Not really important. It's used for creating /run/uuidd and running the daemon. Whether this is picked by the system or some curated number that we pick makes little difference -- we won't be shipping around files that are owned by this user.
