Edmund R. MacKenty wrote:
removes a headache for you. I don't think the UID/GID can be re-used, as your vendor controls their assignments for system accounts and useradd(8) will not assign UID/GID values below 500 unless you explicity ask for it with the -r option, which you're not going to ever use, right? So even if there are files owned by UID 12 after you delete "games", no one else will get to own them.
I don't know about RHEL and SLES, in the ordinary course of events, but it certainly can happen in Debian. I said "in the ordinary course of events" to exclude reference to third-party software. If I provide some kind of server software, installation may well involve creating a _system_ account. That is perfectly consistent with how Linux vendors installed their standard daemons - postgresql, apache, postfix et al all have their own system accounts. It's the vendors' choice whether those accounts are part of the standard set, or created when and if required. A third-party vendor would create them when their software is installed, and if you have removed some of the standard set, then yes the UIDs and GUIDs can be reused. And, if you ever have need to move a disk from one system to another, where the mappings o UID/GIDs to names differs, you may have problems. -- Cheers John -- spambait [email protected] [email protected] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
