Jack Woehr wrote:
Edmund R. MacKenty wrote:
.  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
That number-below-which is controlled by the contents of /etc/login.defs
I believe, which is an editable text file, not a hard limit.


and the default limit varies, I've read that the traditional Unix limit
is 1000, and that's what Debian uses.

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