On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Oliver Temlin <tem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's actually meant to be that way. The systemd-sysusers service allocates > ids from 999 downwards.
*nod* talking to falconindy about it more and trying to read the systemd code, during ./configure it reads /etc/login.defs and uses either the SYS_UID_MAX or 999 if that's missing (or a cli option). The list of users it creates is in systemd-remote.conf[1] but then I was confused as it seems that out of the 3 currently listed there one (systemd-journal-gateway) *has* to be created by the packaging first (I found a bug report for the same thing in both Arch & RHEL - RHEL .spec also creates this user like Arch) but the other two do not. *shrug* -te [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/sysusers.d/systemd-remote.conf
