On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:51:00AM -0500, Jor-el wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Phillip Hofmeister wrote:
> 
> > Just a guess...
> > but it probably has something to do with another package may
> > be utilizing that ID....
> 
>       I doubt it. 'find / -user <userid in question>' returned nothing
> in all cases. Its possible that programs from another package may have
> runtime dependancies on the ids, but given the names of the ids (gnats,
> msql, etc) I doubt that is the case.

Read /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/README

ids 0-99 are 'built in' to Debian

ids 100-999 are created by packages on install (and deleted on purge)

Luca

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