Re: Logs and Permissions for Daemons
oneiros <oneiros@darkspire.net> wrote:
> 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.
Actually, those packages should be fixed.
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