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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
