On Sun, 2019-11-10 at 18:23 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As part of taking maintainership of the net-misc/asterisk package (and
> related), one of the cleanup items is to use the new acct-{user,group}
> method for assigning UID and GID values.
>
> As such I'd like to please reserve UID and GID = 42 for asterisk.
>
> Why 42?
>
> echo -e "\x$(bc <<<"obase=16; 42")"
>
> Current net-misc/asterisk uses a dynamically assigned UID and GID value.
>
> I do not have permission to edit
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UID_GID_Assignment_Table
> (https://api.gentoo.org/uid-gid.txt).
>
> Neither RHEL nor Fedora seems to have an asterisk user. Arch uses 77.
> We already have qemu on 77.
> Other distros use 42 for something else, particularly for stuff we have as well. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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