Bug#5038: Adduser starts dynamically allocated system UIDs at 100
Package: adduser
Version: 2.11
The current version of adduser starts the allocation of dynamically system
accounts at 101. To quote the manpage on this:
Under Debian GNU/Linux, IDs less than or equal to 100 are
allocated by the base system maintainer for various pur
poses. IDs from 101 to the value specified in the config
uration file (1000, by default) are used for system users
and groups. IDs greater than 1000 are reserved for users
and their corresponding groups.
This is in contradiction to the decision reached after a lengthy discussion on
debian-devel, that range for dynamically allocated system UIDs should be a
site option. To quote Ian Jackson:
ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk said:
> I'm postulating two kinds of system accounts: static ones, where the
> ids user are the owners of files in .deb files or are compiled into
> binaries, and dynamic ones where they are only used by name or in
> scripts.
> The static ones would be allocated centrally from the range 0-99, or
> 65000-65533 if many are required by one package or for obscure
> packages or if we start to run out.
> The dynamic ones would be allocated by adduser from whatever range
> was specified in adduser.conf. This would default to 100-999.
Cheers,
Lukas
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