In article <[email protected]>, Jason Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/15/2011 10:42 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > > Yes, I was hoping to use such a system user and group for asterisk, which > > would not conflict with any other system package I might install in the > > future, by virtue of being reserved for asterisk. > > > > There shouldn't be any conflict either way. (Properly written) packages don't > specify a UID to use - they just get created sequentially, so the next > available > ID is used.
If that were the case, I would expect different installations of the same distro (with varying package selections) to have different values for UIDs of specific system users. But examination of several different RH-based systems from FC1 through to CentOS 6 shows the same values being used. I would be reluctant to label all such packages as improperly written :-) 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
