Guillaume <[email protected]> writes: > the Policy manual says on this page in the ch.9 ( > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html ) that :
> 9.2.2 UID and GID classes > ... > 1000-59999: > Dynamically allocated user accounts. By default |adduser| will > choose UIDs and GIDs for user accounts in this range, though > |adduser.conf| may be used to modify this behavior. > I checked /etc/adduser.conf on my system and found : > # FIRST_[GU]ID to LAST_[GU]ID inclusive is the range of UIDs of dynamically > # allocated user accounts/groups. > FIRST_UID=1000 > LAST_UID=29999 > FIRST_GID=1000 > LAST_GID=29999 I believe Policy is correct and adduser is what's buggy here. Policy used to say 29999 if I recall correctly, and we changed that. I'm guessing no one followed up with adduser and changed the default config. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
