Re: userids introduced by package installs
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:03:11PM -0700, Luca Filipozzi wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:51:00AM -0500, Jor-el wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Phillip Hofmeister wrote:
> >
> > > Just a guess...
> > > but it probably has something to do with another package may
> > > be utilizing that ID....
> >
> > I doubt it. 'find / -user <userid in question>' returned nothing
> > in all cases. Its possible that programs from another package may have
> > runtime dependancies on the ids, but given the names of the ids (gnats,
> > msql, etc) I doubt that is the case.
>
> Read /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/README
>
> ids 0-99 are 'built in' to Debian
>
> ids 100-999 are created by packages on install (and deleted on purge)
This is also explained in the "Securing Debian Manual" BTW
Javi
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