Thanks for the reply and from Curtis - at least I can feel safe rebooting now! I will merge the uid change for uuidd just in case in the future the 999 uid is wanted by another package...... On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 06.12.2012 18:15, schrieb Curtis Shimamoto: > > Also, I jsut looked at my passwd file and apparently I had merged my > > pacnew files to reflect the changed uid for uuidd. So mine is 68:68 and > > I have no issues. > > None of this really matters - the only place where uuidd is used is here: > > $ cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/uuidd.conf > d /run/uuidd 0755 uuidd uuidd > > As long as the user and group exist (no matter which UID/GID), > everything will be fine. On top of that, virtually nobody uses uuidd. > > > -- mike c
