Service own group & user ids

wael_h · 12-26-2020, 05:11 PM

Hello everyone;

I have posted a link some weeks ago for OpenStreetMap OVERPASS installation guide for slackware. The dispatcher server cannot run as root, so I created its own user and group with an arbitrary id's; just like was done in the postgreSQL slackbuild script. The question is what are the rules to choose those id's? What standard(s) do I need to conform to? Now I know those ids should not be high numbers like I did.

Thanks in advance
Wael Hammoudeh

Alien Bob · 12-26-2020, 06:04 PM

Perhaps you can work with http://slackbuilds.org/faq/#uid_gid

wael_h · 12-26-2020, 08:04 PM

Thanks very much Eric, I will check that out.

Wael H.

rworkman · 12-26-2020, 08:13 PM

and if you'd like to request the next available uid/gid, you can do so here or email the SBo devel list or even email me directly if that's preferable.

wael_h · 12-26-2020, 09:28 PM

Hi Robby and thanks for the reply;

I would very much appreciate your recommendation in this, so please consider this as a request for gid/uid for the OSM overpass group/user to be added to Slackware.

And please if you have any question, just let me know.

Thank you very much
Wael Hammoudeh

rworkman · 12-26-2020, 09:42 PM

Added this - if it should be named differently or some such, please advise.

Code:

overpass
========
User:   overpass      UID: 367        GID: 367
Group:  overpass                      GID: 367

For the sake of clarity, this doesn't add the user/group to anything except for the linked document.
We're just trying to avoid uid/gid collisions when installing software.

wael_h · 12-26-2020, 10:01 PM

Thank you very much Robby;

I do understand what you said and I appreciate your help. I will use the numbers you recommended and modify my Overpass guide accordingly.

Thanks again,
Wael Hammoudeh