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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't use UIDs and GIDs below 100 without QA approval
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:18:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP41x9pr95gfw_HORo6+3rpFoCBe+S=70x=-c6d0OQcv84g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <utugitsro@gentoo.org>

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:08 PM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Thu, 11 Nov 2021, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>
> >> - Open part of the range 60001..65533. Not sure if all software will be
> >> happy with that.
>
> > systemd has some code that special-cases ids in the "system" range.
> > I'm not exactly sure what impact creating system users outside above
> > SYS_UID_MAX (login.defs) will have.
>
> We also have some IDs below SYS_UID_MIN (= 101) which technically is
> outside the system account range of login.defs. Do these cause any
> problems with systemd?

That seems less likely to cause a problem. systemd considers any id <=
SYS_UID_MAX to be a system id.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-11 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-11 10:59 [gentoo-dev] Don't use UIDs and GIDs below 100 without QA approval Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-11 11:34 ` Florian Schmaus
2021-11-11 11:40   ` Joonas Niilola
2021-11-11 11:48   ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-11 12:10     ` Pacho Ramos
2021-11-11 12:32       ` Jaco Kroon
2021-11-11 12:45         ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-11 12:13     ` Ionen Wolkens
2021-11-11 14:52     ` Florian Schmaus
2021-11-11 11:49   ` Rich Freeman
2021-11-11 18:31 ` Mike Gilbert
2021-11-11 19:08   ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-11 19:18     ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
2021-11-11 22:07 ` James Cloos
2021-11-13 10:08   ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-14 20:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-14 20:15 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-11-14 23:37   ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-15  6:36   ` Eray Aslan
2021-11-28  4:13     ` William Hubbs
2021-11-28 10:06       ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-28 19:06         ` William Hubbs
2021-11-28 19:15           ` Michał Górny
2021-11-28 20:46             ` William Hubbs
2021-11-28 20:56               ` William Hubbs
2021-11-28 19:57         ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-11-28 20:26           ` William Hubbs
2021-11-28 20:34             ` Mike Gilbert
2021-11-28 20:42             ` Gordon Pettey
2021-11-28 20:52               ` William Hubbs
2021-11-29 14:17         ` Eray Aslan

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