Hello,
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
It's a wheezy ( 7.8 ) box, and I ignored the existence of this file
before, so I suppose it is the default settings.
Maybe the Policy manual may be modified to the good range [ 1000-29999 ]
and indicate that the range [ 30000-59999 ] is left to the sysadmin (
for netusers / netgroups for example ).
May you tell me if I'm right or wrong ?
Thanks all of you for your work,
Guillaume.
