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

[Gordon Henderson]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, 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.

Different distros and different sysadmins have their own ideas about what 
numbers to use - I used to use 80 for the apache web user, but Debian for 
some weird reason likes 33 for example...

> 2. Are there standard values of UID and GID reserved for the "asterisk"
> user, if used for running Asterisk as non-root.?

No. You may find that CentOS has an idea of what UIDs it likes to reserve 
for 'system' processes vs. users... See the man page for useradd (-r 
option) or adduser (--system option) depending on which one you prefer.

Gordon