On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 04:07:38PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > Anyway, I don't know how numeric IDs are assigned to users and groups > - especially those intended to be used by system daemons like mysql or > postgreql. I have postgresql on my box and it does this same kind of > thing with user and group creation. Do you know what values I should > be using so I don't conflict with other potential packages?
Make sure the user and group IDs don't conflict with those in the UID / GID Database [1]. [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:UID_/_GID_Database
