Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?
On 2009-09-16 15:57 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> Kept thinking a bit longer: are the uids and gids of daemon users
> actually determined during install? My experience is that these users
> actually preserve their uid over installations quite well.
This is only true for users with a UID < 100, as these are defined and
maintained by the base-passwd package. System users with a higher UID
get their UID and GID allocated at package installation time and use the
first ones that are available. So these vary greatly between systems.
Sven
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