Tushar Teredesai wrote: > Instead of assigning a specific UID and GID, we could use the > following commands when creating the system users (FYI I use a similar > construct for my pkg-user pkg manager). This way we don't need to hard > code values for each user/group and it is guaranteed to not clash with > any existing UID/GID: > groupadd -K GID_MIN=20 -K GID_MAX=100 <GROUP_NAME> > useradd -K UID_MIN=20 -K UID_MAX=100 -g <GROUP_NAME> <USER_NAME> > -- > Tushar Teredesai > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/
I'd rather suggest hard coded ids as they are more consistent from system to system. The users are, of course, free to use anything they want. -- Bruce P.S. Glad to see all the Houstonites back on the job now. :) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
