On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 08:55:48 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > By convention, Arch expects user UIDs to be greater than 1000. I understand that. > There is a list of explicitly reserved system UIDs by repo packages > here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:UID_/_GID_Database Which, apart from qmail which is easily avoided, lists only IDs below 500. But it looks like /etc/login.defs additionally reserves a range of system IDs. Cheerio, hauke -- The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath () No HTML/RTF in email Institut für Nachrichtentechnik /\ No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-21344