Re: System user groups
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:50:05AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hello,
>
> just to make sure whether I missed something:
> On a freshly installed box I've got
>
> ~> grep ":100" /etc/group
> users:x:100:
> linux:x:1000:
> gdm:x:1001:
> lpadmin:x:1002:root,tillea
>
> User is the first user I usually create when I'm installing a box.
> Why the hell do gdm and lpadmin (installed by cupsys) have normal
> user IDs (> 1000)??? I did not changed /etc/adduser.conf, i.e.
> LAST_SYSTEM_UID=999
> applies. I regard this as crtitical bug of gdm and cupsys package
It's not critical. If you're sharing user IDs between boxes you should
be setting that up as early as possible anyway. It's certainly a bug
that it doesn't use 'addgroup --system', but I think you're overreacting
with the severity. You can always renumber the users.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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