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Re: Logs and Permissions for Daemons



Previously Herbert Xu wrote:
> Any reason why this has to be static? It seems that it would be easier
> just to let adduser allocate a uid in that range dynamically.

Not really. As policy puts it:

  100-999:
       Dynamically allocated system users and groups. Packages which
       need a user or group, but can have this user or group allocated
       dynamically and differently on each system, should use ``adduser
       --system'' to create the group and/or user. `adduser' will check
       for the existence of the user or group, and if necessary choose
       an unused id based on the ranged specified in `adduser.conf'.

Wichert.

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