Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server
--- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> It's perfectly safe to keep those users starting at
> 500. Debian
> packages that want an id in the 100-999 range will
> dynamically allocate
> it with adduser, which will never trample over an
> existing user, and it
> doesn't matter what user id it picks.
>
> I have my user id as 500 on a bunch of systems, a
> holdover from 5 years
> ago when I ran redhat. Never experienced any
> problems at all due to it.
Very interesting. Makes me lean the other way now
(toward just leaving the uids as < 1000).
Thanks,
Belloc
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