[gentoo-dev] RFC: UID/GID assignment for cron (16)

[gentoo-dev] RFC: UID/GID assignment for cron (16)

[Lars Wendler]

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I would like to reserve UID/GID 16 for cron which is being used by
sys-process/cronie

This is the historical UID/GID for cron user in Gentoo.
Arch is using UID/GID 22 while Fedora does not have such a user/group.

You can find the commits (among others) for possible review here:
https://github.com/Polynomial-C/gentoo/commits/accts-cronie

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Lars Wendler
Gentoo package maintainer
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: UID/GID assignment for cron (16)

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 11/12/19 3:59 AM, Lars Wendler wrote:
> 
> You can find the commits (among others) for possible review here:
> https://github.com/Polynomial-C/gentoo/commits/accts-cronie
> 

Please leave ACCT_USER_HOME at the default and create /var/spool/cron in
the cronie ebuild (with whatever permissions it needs). The user doesn't
need a home directory, and other packages might want to use it.