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  • From: David Brown <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] create_account & create_group placement
  • Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:08:19 -0700

Maybe this should be documented somewhere
cause this is all new stuff to me... (probably more bugs for me)

The adduser script does make UIDs >= 1000
Is there a addgroup script that is similar, all I know of is groupadd
which takes the next available group regardless of GID, which is how I
got into the situation I'm in.
It doesn't look like there exists one, maybe we could add a 'addgroup'
script that would do something similar to adduser.

- David Brown

On 8/9/05, Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:37:25AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> >
> > Admin created accounts are supposed to start at 500 (or 1000,
> > depending on who you listen to) and system accounts (created by
> > packages and such) stay below 500 (or 1000, ditto).
>
> The init system is patched to kill processes owned by UID >=1000 (it
> used to be 100).
>
> New Users start at 1000. I suggest we set:
>
> 0 - 499 System Packages
> 500 - 999 Local Administration
> 1000 - .... Users
>
> And then we can expect the system and local administrator to be
> responsible for killing their own created processes.
>
> Seth
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