System accounts

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:07 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> 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'.
This case is a great example of a case of why fedora-usermgnt is a
superflous:

Your non-Fedora servers will not know about this uid, whether you are
using fedora-usermgnt or not. You will always have to add this uid
manually, if you want to share apache files on your network.

Ralf