Ethan Benson wrote: > uid's 100 - 999 are reserved for the packaging system/daemons etc. > you won't likely have a problem but it would be better to migrate to > debian policy anyway.
It's perfectly safe to keep those users starting at 500. Debian packages that want an id in the 100-999 range will dynamically allocate it with adduser, which will never trample over an existing user, and it doesn't matter what user id it picks. I have my user id as 500 on a bunch of systems, a holdover from 5 years ago when I ran redhat. Never experienced any problems at all due to it. -- see shy jo
