System accounts

Mike McGrath imlinux at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 17:42:21 UTC 2005


When packaging an RPM that requires a system account, how is it decided
what UID and GID that account gets?  For example, Apache's UID is 48 in
the spec file.  How did this id get chosen and who keeps a list of uid's
so there's no overlap?

    -Mike




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