On 05/13/2017 06:23 PM, Val Kulkov wrote: > Is there any convention on the use of uid and gid when creating new > users or groups? Can someone point me to it, if it exists? > > I noticed that two packages, icecast and postfix, compete for the same uid=87: > > icecast's Makefile: > USERID:=icecast=87:icecast=87 > > postfix's postfix.init: > user_exists postfix || user_add postfix 87 > > There may be more packages competing for the same uid/gid's, I have > not fully researched it. > > I am preparing a new package, opendkim, which should be run as a > non-privileged user. For this, > USERID:=opendkim=<something>:opendkim=<something> seems appropriate, > but what numbers should I assign? > > Val
I think that it is possible to allow the package installer to randomly assign the UID/GID. "USERID:=user:group" This didn't work for all releases, so I didn't try it for Unbound. Maybe it is time to give it a chance. - Eric _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
