On 10/22/2013 01:25 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > Are there any guidelines regarding user and group id number assignment > on Fedora? > > I'd like to add user/group for daemon, related to installed package, in > order to avoid running it as root. What numbers are already reserved and > where can I find up to date table with that numbers? > > I see in my /etc/passwd that regular user accounts are assigned numbers > starting from 1000 (was it 500 on older systems?), 0-200 and 201-999 are > used by system accounts and packages like httpd, wireshark, etc. UIDs >= 1000 are reserved for users, < 1000 for system. System UIDs can be allocated statically or dynamically. Static UID allocation can be found in [1], to add a new UID you need to file a RFE against setup package. Dynamic UID allocation is done from 999 downwards. You don't need to reserve anything, but UIDs can very between systems. [1] /usr/share/doc/setup/uidgid -- Mikolaj Izdebski IRC: mizdebsk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
