standardize uid:gid?

From	David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	standardize uid:gid?
Date	2024-01-18 06:50 +0100
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Couldn't Debian standardize uid:gid numbers for daemons?  The oldest--and 
only strictly UNIX-like--GNU/Linux (Slackware) does this so if you install 
multiple instances and want them the same, you can backup /etc/passwd & /
etc/group from one and use them on another (as long as there aren't 
different users which is sometimes the case).  This standardization was 
probably from UNIX/*BSD.
    What happens every time I can't use *BSD or Slackware on a server and 
resort to Devuan (or Debian-based for some users' PCs) is that all the 
uid:gid seem random so there's no way to administer them all with the same 
files in cases that it'd work.  Having random uid:gid is a last-rate 
style.

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standardize uid:gid? David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2024-01-18 06:50 +0100
  Re: standardize uid:gid? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-01-18 07:30 +0100
    Re: standardize uid:gid? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-01-18 15:30 +0100
    Re: standardize uid:gid? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-01-18 16:10 +0100
    Re: standardize uid:gid? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-01-18 16:20 +0100
      Re: standardize uid:gid? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-01-18 18:10 +0100
      Re: standardize uid:gid? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2024-01-18 22:00 +0100
  Re: standardize uid:gid? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-18 13:40 +0100
    Re: standardize uid:gid? David Chmelik <dchmelik@gmail.com> - 2024-01-19 07:00 +0100
    Re: standardize uid:gid? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-20 00:00 +0100
    Re: standardize uid:gid? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2024-01-26 15:30 +0100
      Re: standardize uid:gid? Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2024-01-26 16:30 +0100

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