Re: Reserving USERID

2023-08-11 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Aug 11, 2023, at 10:11 AM, Paul Spooren wrote: > > Hi, > >> Is explicit better or not? And if it is better, how do I go about reserving >> values that won't get stepped on? Who is our Numbers Czar, who is our IANA? > > I always used Gentoos numbers[1] whenever I added something.

Re: Reserving USERID

2023-08-11 Thread Paul Spooren
Hi, > Is explicit better or not? And if it is better, how do I go about reserving > values that won't get stepped on? Who is our Numbers Czar, who is our IANA? I always used Gentoos numbers[1] whenever I added something. Since Clixon is not part of that list, maybe use something that’s not

Reserving USERID

2023-08-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
Hi, I'm working on an updated release of Clixon for OpenWRT, and I want it to stop running as "root". Looking at all of the Makefiles, I see some packages reserve an explicit uid/gid associated with the user and group names, like ntp and ubus and network... while others don't (like docker and