Re: User id allocation and fedora-usermgmt

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Enrico Scholz (enrico scholz informatik tu-chemnitz de) said: 
> >         The system User IDs from 0 to 99 should be statically allocated
> >         by the system, and shall not be created by applications.
> >
> >         The system User IDs from 100 to 499 should be reserved for
> >         dynamic allocation by system administrators and post install
> >         scripts using useradd.
> >
> > This is pretty vague, as far as standards go,
> 
> I think it is pretty clear... an LSB compliant package should not assign
> a static uid in the 100..499 range. Only 0..99 is available for static
> uids.

Actually, when I read that, it seems to imply that post-install scripts
adding users in that range is fine, and 0-100 is for static stuff
in /etc/passwd.

Not that Fedora is completely LSB compliant anyway.

Bill