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

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <4EC28E0B.20707 at digium.com>,
Jason Parker <jparker at digium.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I was hoping to use such a system user and group for asterisk, which
would not conflict with any other system package I might install in the
future, by virtue of being reserved for asterisk.

But it sounds like it is distro-specific.

Cheers
Tony


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