Re: System user groups
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> > User is the first user I usually create when I'm installing a box.
> > Why the hell do gdm and lpadmin (installed by cupsys) have normal
> > user IDs (> 1000)??? I did not changed /etc/adduser.conf, i.e.
> > LAST_SYSTEM_UID=999
> > applies. I regard this as crtitical bug of gdm and cupsys package
>
> It's not critical. If you're sharing user IDs between boxes you should
> be setting that up as early as possible anyway. It's certainly a bug
> that it doesn't use 'addgroup --system', but I think you're overreacting
> with the severity. You can always renumber the users.
Well, I would be lucky if someone could investigate in checking and
filing the bug report because I'm about to go into vacation the
next couple of minutes.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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