[Wylug-help] OSX to Linux Numerical UIDs

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Dave Fisher wrote:

> I considered re-setting the Linux UID, but I thought that might be a
> little inelegant, since OSX counts ordinary users from UID 501, putting
> it 499 short of the numbers that Linux uses for ordinary users.

I'd like to know what the logic is behind the 1000.  Certainly picking on the
linux distro I have to hand:

>From login.defs:

UID_MIN                   500
UID_MAX                 60000

>From pam.d/system-auth:

auth        requisite     pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet

Taking a look at SuSe, we have:

SYSTEM_UID_MIN            100
SYSTEM_UID_MAX            499
UID_MIN                  1000
UID_MAX                 60000

What's it reserving 500-999 for?

jh

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