Re: Mistake in the Chapter 9
Guillaume <guillaume@majbe.net> writes:
> the Policy manual says on this page in the ch.9 (
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html ) that :
> 9.2.2 UID and GID classes
> ...
> 1000-59999:
> Dynamically allocated user accounts. By default |adduser| will
> choose UIDs and GIDs for user accounts in this range, though
> |adduser.conf| may be used to modify this behavior.
> I checked /etc/adduser.conf on my system and found :
> # FIRST_[GU]ID to LAST_[GU]ID inclusive is the range of UIDs of dynamically
> # allocated user accounts/groups.
> FIRST_UID=1000
> LAST_UID=29999
> FIRST_GID=1000
> LAST_GID=29999
I believe Policy is correct and adduser is what's buggy here. Policy used
to say 29999 if I recall correctly, and we changed that. I'm guessing no
one followed up with adduser and changed the default config.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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