Bug#905817: UID range of DyanmicUser overlaps with existing definitions in debian-policy

[Michael Biebl]

Am 15.09.18 um 20:31 schrieb Russ Allbery:
> Adding Colin as base-passwd maintainer.
> 
> Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name> writes:
>> On Fri 10 Aug 2018 at 08:23AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
>>> Currently, DynamicUser gets a uid from within the following range:
>>> 61184 - 65519. Those values can be configured during build time via
>>> -Ddynamic-uid-min= and -Ddynamic-uid-max.
> 
> Those two numbers are oddly specific.  Is there some history behind those
> specific boundaries?

There is
http://0pointer.net/blog/dynamic-users-with-systemd.html

and

https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/blob/master/doc/UIDS-GIDS.md
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