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| From | Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? |
| Date | 2019-08-17 05:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <yvXgl-3QP-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:18 PM Steffen Dettmer <steffen.dettmer@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for your quick reply. > > I see, multiboot with different /etc but shared /usr or /local could > invite a lot of trouble if using different UIDs, indeed! Thanks for the > quick explanation. > > > (Apparently man used uid 13 in Debian 8 / Jessi but 6 in Debian 9 / >> > Stretch). >> >> AFAICS, user "man" has had UID 6 since at least Debian 6/squeeze >> > >From looking at an Ubuntu 16.04 System I administer, User "man" (uid 6) is, apparently the owner of /var/cache/man, which appears to be an area for translating man pages. Who creates this User? > > Ohh, this is interesting, so I wonder why I had a different value then, > maybe something else was wrong with my system then... > Could there be multiple Packages that might attempt to Create that User (man)? Best regards, Kenneth Parker
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Why do UID values of system users matter? Steffen Dettmer <steffen.dettmer@gmail.com> - 2019-08-16 23:30 +0200
Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 00:20 +0200
Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-08-17 00:30 +0200
Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? Steffen Dettmer <steffen.dettmer@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 04:20 +0200
Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 05:10 +0200
Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-08-19 15:20 +0200
Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-08-19 20:00 +0200
Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-08-17 06:50 +0200
Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-08-19 15:30 +0200
Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-08-19 19:30 +0200
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Re: Why do UID values of system users matter? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-08-17 06:10 +0200
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