I note in
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0484.html
that the new setup package
setup-2.5.58-7.el5
allocates uid=16:gid=16 to oprofile.
For historical reasons I use 16:16 for exim and further note that
the SL5 exim package users uid=93, and that I have already
used 93 for my Maple licence manager.
A package can use useradd to pick a uid (and gid?) at install time
but having different uid/gids for the same system user on different
machines seems like a bad idea (Fedora seems to agree:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageDynamicUserCreationConsideredBad
).
Do you know of any list of safe/reserved/used uid/gids for RedHat/SL5
so that I can avoid future clashes after I renumber this time ?
Thanks,
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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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