Hello,

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 06:23:28AM +0000, Tim Woodall wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, David Chmelik wrote:
> 
> > Couldn't Debian standardize uid:gid numbers for daemons?

[…]

> I haven't tried it but I would assume that if the user exists then the
> package uses that.

Correct.

So for our machines which are set up by config management we
maintain our own list of uids and gids for the users and groups that
the software needs, and pre-create them before the relevant packages
are installed. That way they end up the same every time on every
machine.

Thanks,
Andy

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