Re: creating users
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 01:43:56AM -0700, Pedro Salgueiro wrote:
> Can a deb package create a user?
Yes, with some restrictions, see policy section 10.2.2 (UID and GID
classes). Basically, there's a section of UID/GIDs reserved for
dynamic allocation by packages. This is 100-999 by default, but the
user can change that by editing adduser.conf, so you should use
"adduser --system" to create the user.
If you need a specific UID (can't use dynamic allocation for some
reason), then things get trickier; I'll assume that's not the case and
ignore the issue for now.
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