Chad Miller wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:12:21AM +0100, Szilveszter Farkas wrote: > > i would like to create a package which needs a system user and a group > > to be added. which uid/gid shall i use? leave it over 1000 (default), > > or should i set it under 1000? > > There's policy already set up for this, and "adduser --system" does the > right thing. You nnedn't worry about choosing a UID.
See the Policy manual section 10.2.1 for the details. As noted you should be using the 'adduser' command to dynamically create uids when created within your package. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s10.2 Bob
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