System accounts

[Enrico Scholz]

imlinux at gmail.com (Mike McGrath) writes:

> 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?

It's unspecified and you can do what you want. 'fedora-usermgmt' is a try
to solve the UID/GID problem but was never accepted by all people. You
can register your user at (the unofficial)

           http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry

page. You can also read

           http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserCreation

how to use 'fedora-usermgmt'.



Enrico
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