begin quoting DJA as of Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 02:23:37PM -0800: [snip] > I am creating a user/group (sane/sane) for SANE so that we can access > our scanner from the network. > > Why is it recommended (at least by RH and Fedora distros) that one not > create new users or groups with UID/GID less than 500?
Presumably so that packages that assume that they can create an account can do so simply by using a fixed UID/GID in the 100-500 range. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
