[asterisk-users] Standard UIDs, especially for asterisk?

[Jason Parker]

On 11/15/2011 09:58 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> I see on my CentOS systems that certain users for particular subsystems
> have standardised UIDs and GIDs. For example mysql=27, ntp=38, sshd=74.
> 
> My two questions are:
> 
> 1. Is there a list of these standard assignments somewhere? Googling did
> not turn up anything for me.
> 
> 2. Are there standard values of UID and GID reserved for the "asterisk"
> user, if used for running Asterisk as non-root.?
> 
> Cheers
> Tony

There are no standard UID/GIDs for things.  They are just system users that have
no login shell.  They are given lower IDs than normal user accounts (on redhat
systems, see -r option to useradd) so that they can be easily distinguished.