On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:42:22AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > 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. Surely it's serious though (policy violation, 10.2.2)? "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." -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 5th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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