Re: new static uid/gid needed (ups)

[ruud@ruud.org (Ruud de Rooij)]

Jozef Hitzinger <hitzinger@phobos.fphil.uniba.sk> writes:

> Anybody responsible for static uid/gid?
> 
> I need 'ups' static uid/gid (0-99) for ups soft, which just sits on ttyS1
> and shares some files - doesn't need to be root. 
> 
> Either convince me that there's another way out of it (as using existing
> ids - which ones?), or please help me get these two numbers assigned.
> 
> With no response to two previous requests, locally I've just taken 91, but
> if I released it this way, you'd kill me, wouldn't you?

Why does it _need_ to be static?  Is there a reason why you can't add
the user at installation time with adduser --system?

	- Ruud de Rooij.
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