Re: Logs and Permissions for Daemons

[oneiros <oneiros@darkspire.net>]

Thus spake Herbert Xu (herbert@gondor.apana.org.au):

> 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.

True.

But some packages need to be compiled with options such as --use-uid=something
or similar options.  So having statically mapped uids for cases like this
makes things easier to maintain.

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