[tur-users] [dpmcgee at gmail.com: Re: [arch-dev-public] [pacman-dev] Adding new users/groups]

[Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino]

On 11:29 Mon 09 Apr     , Jason Chu wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> -----
> 
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:15:45 -0400
> From: Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>
> To: Public mailing list for ArchLinux development <arch-dev-public at archlinux.org>
> Reply-To: Public mailing list for ArchLinux development <arch-dev-public at archlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] [pacman-dev] Adding new users/groups
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> 
> On 4/7/07, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 03:19:44PM -0400, Dan McGee wrote:
> > > On 4/7/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 2007/4/7, Andrew Fyfe <andrew at neptune-one.net>:
> > > > > What's the procedure for adding new system users/groups to the system.
> > > > > There's a lot of install scripts that add users/groups with specific
> > > > > ids, is there a list somewhere of all the names/ids used to stop 2
> > > > > different packages from trying to use the same id?
> > > >
> > > > Developers have such list.
> > > > Why do you need this and why ask on pacman-dev? ;)
> > >
> > > The better question- why is this not a public list?
> > >
> > > -Dan
> >
> > It was supposed to be turned into a public list a while ago (to share with
> > the TUs).  That just never happened.
> >
> > Jason
> 
> Devs,
> 
> I put this list up so we can expose some of this stuff to the public:
> <http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UID_and_GID_List>
> 
> Please, if you have a chance and have packages that create their own
> users or groups, look it over and make the necessary changes or
> additions. This was just copied from the developers wiki without any
> fact checking.
> 
> If anyone wants to forward this on to the TU list, feel free, I'm not
> a member of it so my mails get stuck in the queue.

I think this means that we have to fill that table in the wiki 
with ours {U,G}IDs :)

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Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino
Arch Linux Trusted User
http://www.archlinux.org