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[David Brown <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>]

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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