On 22.10.2013 13:32, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote: > 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 > Thanks, that is the list I was looking for. Is there any mechanism to assign first available id from "less than 999" pool or should I manually find the right number? I understand that dynamic assignment is done by package manager, but I don't want to rebuild and reinstall rpm package for now on. Mateusz Marzantowicz -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
