In article <[email protected]>, Gordon Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Tony Mountifield wrote: > > > I see on my CentOS systems that certain users for particular subsystems > > have standardised UIDs and GIDs. For example mysql=27, ntp=38, sshd=74. > > > > My two questions are: > > > > 1. Is there a list of these standard assignments somewhere? Googling did > > not turn up anything for me. > > Different distros and different sysadmins have their own ideas about what > numbers to use - I used to use 80 for the apache web user, but Debian for > some weird reason likes 33 for example...
Ah, interesting. CentOS uses 48 for apache, so it evidently does vary between distros. > > 2. Are there standard values of UID and GID reserved for the "asterisk" > > user, if used for running Asterisk as non-root.? > > No. You may find that CentOS has an idea of what UIDs it likes to reserve > for 'system' processes vs. users... See the man page for useradd (-r > option) or adduser (--system option) depending on which one you prefer. Yes, I had been hoping there was a system UID reserved for asterisk, but apparently not. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: [email protected] - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: [email protected] - http://tony.mountifield.org -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
