User id allocation and fedora-usermgmt
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu Mar 2 20:54:13 UTC 2006
Enrico Scholz (enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) said:
> > The system User IDs from 0 to 99 should be statically allocated
> > by the system, and shall not be created by applications.
> >
> > The system User IDs from 100 to 499 should be reserved for
> > dynamic allocation by system administrators and post install
> > scripts using useradd.
> >
> > This is pretty vague, as far as standards go,
>
> I think it is pretty clear... an LSB compliant package should not assign
> a static uid in the 100..499 range. Only 0..99 is available for static
> uids.
Actually, when I read that, it seems to imply that post-install scripts
adding users in that range is fine, and 0-100 is for static stuff
in /etc/passwd.
Not that Fedora is completely LSB compliant anyway.
Bill
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