I set mine at uid/gid=2000 and pray it's good till I retire :)
On 03/03/2015 04:44 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote:
On 03/03/2015 03:33 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
That used to happen in the old days before
system-config-users pretty much kept generated UIDs/GIDs well out
of the range that an installed piece of software might use.
I believe the rule is now that real people users get a UID > 500
and installed apps (like ntop, UID:103, GID:160) use UIDs < 500,
but I don't know if that's a hard and fast rule with apps or not.
I do the same thing with any local group I create - give it a
GID > 500.
The authoritative source used by useradd (perhaps others) is /etc/login.defs:
grep ^UID_MIN /etc/login.defs
UID_MIN 500
Historically it was UID >= 500 (note 500 was the first), in recent Fedora's and
EL7, it's now 1000:
grep ^UID_MIN /etc/login.defs
UID_MIN 1000
Note new systems also have min/max values for system accounts in login.defs:
# Min/max values for automatic uid selection in useradd
#
UID_MIN 1000
UID
# System accounts
SYS_UID
SYS_UID_MAX 999
