On 14/10/10 05:18, Steve Holmes wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 03:07:45AM +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote: >> Make sure the user and group IDs don't conflict with those in the UID / >> GID Database [1]. >> >> [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:UID_/_GID_Database > > Thanks for the reference. I got a referal to that earlier in the > day. What I wonder though is how we are supposed to clear these new > IDs so someone else doesn't use it too. I understand it is difficult > or impossible to update this list. Example: I might take user 111 and > group 111 but there's no way for some other package developer to try > and use the same ones in his or her project. I guess as long as those > two packages don't end up on the system, no harm, no fowel:).
Is it important that the UID/GID are well-known, i.e. are the same on all systems, that would be the case if they are hardcoded somewhere in the code? If that isn't the case then just create the UID/GID as system accounts instead. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe
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