--On 11. Juli 2016 13:25:51 +0800 Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
wrote:
> Perhaps by uid threshold in login.defs?
systemd's configure.ac has this:
AC_ARG_WITH(system-uid-max, AS_HELP_STRING([--with-system-uid-max=UID] [Maximum UID for system
users]), [SYSTEM_UID_MAX="$withval"], [SYSTEM_UID_MAX="`awk 'BEGIN { uid=999 } /^\s*SYS_UID_MAX\s+/ {
uid=$2 } END { print uid }' /etc/login.defs 2>/dev/null || echo 999`"])
so yes, it's the definition from there.
> But then what happens for people
> who're managing users via a directory, who need to avoid conflicting with
> host-local UIDs, but also need some of those users to have systemd
> "system user" like behaviour?
We had this in the past in some setups and this would add another reason
for unexpected headaches...
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Thanks
Bernd