On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:31:21AM +0100, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 09:30:13AM +0100, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> > Am 2014-12-16 23:20, schrieb Robert Schwebel:
> > > We re-use the uids from Debian.
> > 
> > Which are not fixed. See from the desktop I'm working on:
> 
> Uuuh, bad. Is there any distro out there with fixed numbers? Oterwhise
> we might just invent our own scheme.
Debian has (some) fixed uids. But this only applies to the ranges 0-99
and 60000-64999. See /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/README and
/usr/share/base-passwd/passwd.master. (Fun fact: mysql has uid 106 on my
vserver even though it has been granted a fixed uid.)

Best regards
Uwe

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