We took Debian, Gentoo, and Fedora pulled out a common list of users and groups. This is what we came up with.
We used the following Scheme. 0 - 9 Administration Users/Groups 10 - 29 Device Users/Groups 30 - 49 Daemon Users/Groups 50 - 99 Various Users/Groups Accounts with Admin rights to Daemons 100 - 999 Users/Groups 65533 - 65534 Nobody/Nogroup Here is my list of users 0 root 1 bin 2 daemon 3 adm 5 sync 6 shutdown 7 halt 10 lp 30 mail 31 news 32 uucp 50 operator 51 postmaster 65534 nobody Groups 0 root 1 bin 2 daemon 3 sys 4 adm 5 kmem 6 utmp 10 tty 11 video 12 console 13 disk 14 floppy 15 cdrom 16 cdrw 17 tape 18 lp 19 usb 20 audio 21 dialout 30 mail 31 news 32 uucp 100 users 65533 nogroup 65534 nobody -- ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page